<div dir="ltr">My hunch is this won't catch on, for the same reason that videophones have not replaced telephones.<div><br></div><div>Yes, yes, there are Zoom calls these days: group calls, where video is often a necessary part of the experience, not to see people (in the majority of my online calls this year where it's just been people talking, no one used video) but for presentations and similar sharing of data.</div><div><br></div><div>But there are still unscheduled synchronous voice-only calls where video does not contribute, and thus is not generally supported. Likewise, holography would not contribute to said calls, so it is unlikely to be adopted for that use.</div><div><br></div><div>For this technology to take hold, some application must be found where it actually meaningfully contributes to the conversation, and is not just a neat feature. For all that proponents of video calls rail about the benefits of body language and facial expression, people have been able to communicate just fine over voice alone without those cues for over a century, without - in almost all cases - missing anything significant.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 7:39 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">"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.
</font><p><font size="4">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4">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."</font></p>
</div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2020/11/25/this-company-wants-to-put-a-human-size-hologram-booth-in-your-living-room/" target="_blank">https://singularityhub.com/2020/11/25/this-company-wants-to-put-a-human-size-hologram-booth-in-your-living-room/</a></font></div></div>
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