Sunday, April 24, 2016

Creating The Amazing Hologram Illusion

By Melissa Cole


The popularity of the 3D TVs and projection is gaining popularity by the day, in fact, the concept of 3D movies is no longer new. Many of us have experienced this amazing technology. Unknown to many, the technology is quickly evolving, we are moving from 3D displays to the next big thing. This is the hologram illusion.

The animators deploy the principles of Pepper's Ghost technology, a technology that gives them the ability to protect a holographic visual and ghost-like images. However, the new animators are able to deviate from the original Pepper's Ghost technology by using the display to create a depth illusion.

Holographic TV, what is it? Most people don't really know what holograms actually are or what they're capable of. Almost everybody knows princess Leia of Star Wars who talks as a free-floating hologram to her buddies. Even if I have to disappoint you: That's not possible, at least not in an easy way we could think of today. The problem is that light always needs, whether a source or something that reflects it, to find a way to your eyes.

The transparent surface may be a glass or a transparent film. Either way, the film used as the surface is specifically aligned to be able to give the desired illusion. A reflection of an item, object or a person gets displayed on the transparent surface with the help of a special lighting effect.

That all sounds as a very cool technology for movies and home entertainment. The TV would become like a little box with people doing a play in it, but we have, to be honest: It will still need a big amount of time until these devices can be thrown at the market.

In addition to the transparent film surface, there is a flat surface behind the transparent surface to reflect the light that goes through the surface. This gives the 3D images an appearance of a floating object between space. This is the source if the stunning visual display normally associated with the hologram display.

When the Microsoft Kinect is used to capture the holographic images, the result can be amazing. That already sounds good, but the quality is far from being OK. Actually, the quality doesn't matter right now. Currently, the main objective revolves around creating a technology that captures and displays the holograms in real time. This can later on be followed by an improvement in quality.

Today, the companies are adopting this technology as the new age in advertising. The holographic projection specialists are now on high demand for these types of advertising and other forms of 3D displays. The content is the 3D modelling which means that only the imagination and budget is the only possible limitation to the storyboard displays. By creating the objects in 3D, an endless series of wind blowing animations can be obtained. At the heart of it all is the 3D modelling software.




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