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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
CNN + Holographic Images
Tonight, like most people, I tuned into my favorite news station CNN to watch coverage on the election. I was surprised to see Jessica Yellin, a CNN correspondent, on my television screen as a 3-D holographic image. As a believer in the technology being invented and brought to the market by 3DICON (Ticker: TDCP) and the University of Oklahoma, two thoughts immediately popped into my mind: who did it and how did they do it?

Jessica Yellin explained that in order to accomplish the holographic-like image, 35 high-definition cameras surrounded her, shooting her at various angles and transmits what is seemingly an entire body image. (Click here to view the video of Jessica Yellin explaining as a hologram how the feat was accomplished.)

Upon doing further research, I see that another blogger attributed CNN Vice-President David Bohrman as saying CNN in fact has 44 cameras and 20 computers to capture and record each CNN correspondent as a hologram.

Further research also yields an article published by CNN on October 7th titled "Scientist: Holographic television to become reality." The article describes what many faithful holders of 3DICON stock have long believed, that one day we could be sitting in our living rooms and our coffee tables project a 3D image of a current sporting event. The article reports Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian of the University of Arizona as telling CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updateable three-dimensional displays with memory. Below is a portion of the article:


"This is a prerequisite for any type of moving holographic technology. The way it works presently is not suitable for 3-D images," he said.
The researchers produced displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes.

To create television sets the images would need to be changing multiple times each second -- but Peyghambarian is very optimistic this can happen.

He said the University of Arizona team, which is now ten-strong, has been working on advancing hologram technology since 1990 -- so this is a major step forward. He believes that much of the difficulty in creating a holographic set has now been overcome.

"It took us a while to make that first breakthrough, but as soon as you have the first element of it working the rest often comes more rapidly," he said. "What we are doing now is trying to make the model better. What we showed is just one color, what we are doing now is trying to use three colors. The original display was four inches by four inches and now we're going for something at least as big as a computer screen."

There are no more great barriers to overcome now, he said.

The breakthrough has made some long-time researchers of the technology believe that it could now come to fruition.


However, the article also notes a lecturer in Electronic Engineering at Bangor University in Wales, Justin Lawrence, as being skeptical about the technolgy being ready for market in the next 10 years.

I wonder whether CNN and the scientists mentioned in the article are aware of the breakthroughs being made by 3DICON...It would be great to see CNN cover 3DICON and the advancements being made by the company. Perhaps, someone can attract their attention and have them do a follow-up on 3DICON.

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