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TimeOut 10.10.2014

At last! Holograms go to the movies!

In response to huge public demand, the world’s first moving holograms will be on show for an extra week, until next Friday, at the Blair Science Centre in the Millennium Dome.

The animated hologram has been described as one of the greatest scientific puzzles of recent decades, and its invention has been hailed as an advance to match that of the videophone. For years, scientists have tried in vain to producing moving holographic images. At one point the task was widely held to be quite impossible. Finally the Chinese-born Prof. Lee Cheng came up with an idea for getting holograms moving after he delved back into the folk beliefs of his native land - according to which different colours stand for different properties, and their variations have an impact on the destiny of China.

In the laboratories of the Beijing Institute of Technology Prof. Lee developed a computer model with which it was possible - using a special camera - to break up each of the parts of the laser beam required to produce a hologram into its component colours and the colours then into sections of differing lengths. By dividing and re-composing the laser image in this way it was possible to produce a moving hologram.

The Millennium Dome exhibition features nine moving hologram images. The earliest three depict moving objects and are in black and white - or rather in tones of grey, as initially it was not possible to produce moving white light. The six later examples also show moving objects, but among them are some images of people, including a young child feeding itself.

Professor Lee, who attended the opening of the show last week, said at the press briefing that development in this field can be expected to take off relatively quickly from now on. He estimated that the first hologrammatic movies would become available within before the end of the decade, but that at first they could only be shown in special theatres, because the networks are as yet unable to cope with the transfer of the vast amount of information required.

Further information on opening times and admission prices:

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Toteuma-arvio 2026

Toteuma lyhyesti

  • Ilmiön toteuma: 4/5
  • Toteuma viiden vuoden tarkkuudella: kyllä; arviointi-ikkuna on 2009–2019
  • Toteuma väljemmällä aikahorisontilla: kyllä, erittäin vahvasti
  • Ilmiön ydin: kolmiulotteiset liikkuvat hahmot ja esitykset tuodaan viihteeseen hologrammin kaltaisena katselukokemuksena.

Konserttien hologrammiesitykset, läpinäkyvät näyttämöprojektiot ja volumetriset näytöt ovat tehneet liikkuvasta 3D-hahmosta yleisölle tutun. Useimmat ratkaisut eivät ole fysikaalisesti aitoja vapaassa tilassa näkyviä hologrammeja.

Johtopäätös: ydin hologrammimaisesta liikkuvasta viihdekuvasta toteutui, vaikka optinen tekniikka poikkesi.