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Survey says 3D holographic FaceTime and air-powered batteries by 2015
Around Christmastime every year, IBM rolls around computer labs around the country, surveying 3,000 researchers to ask them what big technological advance will be de rigeur in the future.
This year, the big fad was Apple’s Facetime, and so many of the researchers now think that video chat will go 3D by 2015 in the way of Star Wars style hologram video calls.
According to the survey, these holographic video calls will be projected from smartphones using pico-projector technology. That’s plausible, I guess, but it doesn’t really answer the question how the video caller will be captured as a 360 degree hologram.
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