<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/">https://singularityhub.com/2020/11/25/this-company-wants-to-put-a-human-size-hologram-booth-in-your-living-room/</a></font></div></div>