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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

R2-D2 Hologram: Science Fiction to Just Science


As reported by New Scientist a holographic image of Princess Leia was created by scientists at the MIT media lab:

"Bove's group started with an array of 16 low-resolution infrared cameras, spaced evenly along a metre-long line. Computer processing combined the images to generate the data needed for the 3D holographic projector at the rate of 15 frames per second.
The next step came in late December when they bought their first Kinect, and hacked the camera system made by PrimeSense of Israel, which records three-dimensional profiles by projecting a grid of laser light onto a scene. This approach, called structured light, yields resolution of 640 by 480 pixels, three times higher than each infrared camera. That was good enough to record the holographic Princess Leia scene shown here."

 The image quality of the projection is still fuzzy, but it's still pretty mind boggling.  Check it out for yourself!

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