Last year, a rapper who has been dead for more than 15 years was resurrected. By the trick of light, Tupac Shakur beamed back to life during the 2012 Coachella performance, causing jaw-dropping excitement to radiant off of the stunned crowd. Now, engineers of the Object-Based Media Group at the MIT Media Lab are working towards bringing holographic TVs into your living room without breaking your wallet. Led by V. Michael Bove Jr. and graduate student Dan Smalley, the team of engineers has generated a 50 gigapixel per second chip that is comparable to about 500 HGTV’s. Bove says that this chip will be able to transfer information about 10 times more rapidly than other holographic displays. While 3D TVs and other devices have been developed to bring the real-life experience into homes, they have been met with little success. When a person views a 3D image, he/she is looking at two images displayed instantaneously beside one another. Essentially—with the help of 3D glasses—one image is sent to the left eye and the other to the right, “tricking” your brain into viewing the image differently. However, if the person moves from side to side, the images might overlap or the picture might become out of focus, taking away from the “real-life” experience. Read more: http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/holographic-tvs-in-the-making/#ixzz2Wm4yZ08L
