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How About Holographic Meetings in Your Office Space?
Published December 30th, 2010 by Jennifer LeClaire
OK, this is just cool. IBM formally unveiled its fifth annual “Next Five in Five” this week. It’s a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
Big Blue is betting on these five things:
(1) You’ll beam up your friends in 3D
(2) Batteries will breathe air to power our devices
(3) You won’t need to be a scientist to save the planet
(4) Your commute will be personalized, and
(5) Computers will help energize your city
But I think one of the coolest innovations for office space users and road warriors alike is the 3D interfaces IBM is predicting. This is way beyond video chat.
Like in the movies, these interfaces will let you interact with 3D holograms of your friends in real time. Movies and TVs are already moving to 3D, and IBM says as 3D and holographic cameras get more sophisticated and miniaturized to fit into cell phones, you will be able to interact with photos, browse the Web and chat with your friends in entirely new ways. That’s pretty convenient, especially for road warriors who are lucky if they can find an office space to settle down in.
Essentially, scientists are working to improve video chat to become holography chat. The technique uses light beams scattered from objects and reconstructs a picture of that object, a similar technique to the one human eyes use to visualize our surroundings.
Scientists at IBM Research are working on new ways to visualize 3D data, working on technology that would allow engineers to step inside designs of everything from office buildings to software programs, running simulations of how diseases spread across interactive 3D globes, and visualizing trends happening around the world on Twitter—all in real time and with little to no distortion.
This has many implications for office space. So much for video conferencing. How about 3D holographic conferencing? When you think of the office of the future, think of batteries that breathe air and holographic business meetings—and more. I can hardly wait to see what IBM comes up with for next year’s “Next Five in Five.”
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Elizabeth Sanchez December 30th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Wow. Do you really think that’s five years away? I guess when you think of how far we’ve come in the last five years, it’s possible. It reminds me of Yoda and Star Wars. Real science fiction stuff. The office space of the future will surely look much different than today. We’ve already seen an evolution in how office space is configured. Now holographs. Wow.
Bill Brookshire December 30th, 2010 at 11:33 am
I think the batteries that recharge by breathing air are even more practical. Can you imagine? That would solve a lot of problems for road warriors that couldn’t find a place to plug in. That makes working from alternative office spaces a much greater reality. I think IBM is on to something. If they are the ones that patent it, then they should make a good fortune on it.