Gaming in 2020…
This contest has got me thinking about the future in 11 years. I’m sure 90% of the applicants will choose some far fetch technology like holographic video. What’s been proven over time is that research takes about 10 years to enter the mainstream so what’s being published as state of the art now will be practical in 2019.
All of this HD video stuff is old hat as I dealt with $250K D5 VTR (Video Tape Recorder) way back in 1998 that could record near film-quality (HD) digital video. It took 10 years to bring this technology to the mainstream.
So what about Holographic video? It’s still very primitive. I remember all the MIT research in the late-90s about it, but the technology to send out the interference patters (holograms) was crude back then and still is. Computer bandwidth is also a major concern. PCs can barely handle playback of a single stream uncompressed HD video… let alone the amount of data required for holograms.
What’s more plausible is haptic display surfaces like Microsoft Surface where the research is about 10 years old now (MIT Tangible Bits)
1 comment March 1st, 2009