[ExI] This Company Wants to Put a Human-Size Hologram Booth in Your Living Room

[John Grigg]

"Over the last several months we’ve gotten very used to communicating via
video chat. Zoom, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and the like have not only
replaced most in-person business meetings, they’ve acted as a stand-in for
gatherings between friends and reunions between relatives. Just a few short
years ago, many of us would have found it strange to think we’d be spending
so much time talking to people “face-to-face” while sitting right in our
own homes.

Now there’s a new technology looming on the horizon that may one day
replace video calls with an even stranger-to-contemplate, more futuristic
tool: real-time, full-body holograms.

Picture this: you’re sitting in your living room having a cup of coffee
when the phone-booth-size box in the corner dings, alerting you that you
have an incoming call. You accept it, and within seconds your best friend
(or your partner, your grandmother, your boss) appears in the box—in the
form of millions of points of light engineered to look and sound exactly
like the real person. And the real person is on the other end of the line,
talking to you in real time as their holographic likeness moves around the
box—you can see their gestures, body language, and facial expression just
as if they were really there with you."
https://singularityhub.com/2020/11/25/this-company-wants-to-put-a-human-size-hologram-booth-in-your-living-room/
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