3D Holographic Projection

A Guardian writer looks forward 40 years into the future and the everyday (virtual) reality of 3D Holographic Projection in the home :

Daisy decides to start the evening in a bar downtown. The bar in King’s Cross really exists but Daisy and her friends don’t feel like travelling, so with a few clicks her bedroom becomes the (virtual) pub and her friends join her. It’s all done with 3D holographic imaging – once a gimmick but now hugely advanced from the early technology of 2010. An entire wall of Daisy’s bedroom is a vast holographic screen.

“It’s ‘Beam me up, Scotty’,” says Dr Frank Shaw, of the University of Kent’s centre for future studies. “By 2050, you’ll be able to invite your aunt from Australia for Sunday lunch.” And while she might seem as if she is in the same room, eating the roast, she won’t have actually left her own sitting room.

Which is exactly what her parents are doing this evening while Daisy is upstairs with her friends. Although it’s nice to catch up with Katy’s sister in Australia over lunch, real-time social networking means that everyone is pretty much up to speed about what they have all been doing. So, they actually have time for a more civilised conversation about the art exhibition they all attended in cyberspace.

Source : Forty Years from Now