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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Hypervsn Wall is the hologram of your dreams
www.cnet.com: It's like something straight out of Star Wars. This holographic effect display is wowing crowds at CES 2018.
Futuristic films create this idea of holograms as being easily interactive with the human touch, and popping up just from one surface, but this type of hologram that is called the “Hypervsn Wall,” adds a different sort of flare to the realistic look at holograms. The commentator says that the video doesn’t do the holograms justice because of the way that you eye perceives the hologram, but the best way I can understand how the device is working, is like LED lights. They’re constantly flashing, and in this case spinning, and they create something nanosecond after nanosecond to create the illusion that the image is spinning. The programming of this type of wall doesn’t look simple either. It looks like something that CMU would teach so that we could go out and program it, because not many people would know how to do that, and it would offer a very valuable skill for something that might take the market by storm.
I have always been a hard sell on media in theater, but I believe that when done right media has limitless potential to enhance a production. I think that this holographic wall is a good reminder of the boundless exploration that can still be done with media as an artistic and theatrical medium, and I can imagine all sorts of amazing things that could be pulled off with this technology if used artistically rather than commercially. Imagine seeing the ghost of Hamlet's father materialize from thin air on stage! The opportunities are exciting to say the least. However, I think we should also be wary to not embrace technology and media to the point of using it as a creative crutch, as much of the truly magical theatrical experiences are accomplished when the clever use of physical set pieces and costuming can achieve a perfect suspension of disbelief from the audience, which I feel like media can sometimes disrupt if used improperly.
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Futuristic films create this idea of holograms as being easily interactive with the human touch, and popping up just from one surface, but this type of hologram that is called the “Hypervsn Wall,” adds a different sort of flare to the realistic look at holograms. The commentator says that the video doesn’t do the holograms justice because of the way that you eye perceives the hologram, but the best way I can understand how the device is working, is like LED lights. They’re constantly flashing, and in this case spinning, and they create something nanosecond after nanosecond to create the illusion that the image is spinning. The programming of this type of wall doesn’t look simple either. It looks like something that CMU would teach so that we could go out and program it, because not many people would know how to do that, and it would offer a very valuable skill for something that might take the market by storm.
I have always been a hard sell on media in theater, but I believe that when done right media has limitless potential to enhance a production. I think that this holographic wall is a good reminder of the boundless exploration that can still be done with media as an artistic and theatrical medium, and I can imagine all sorts of amazing things that could be pulled off with this technology if used artistically rather than commercially. Imagine seeing the ghost of Hamlet's father materialize from thin air on stage! The opportunities are exciting to say the least. However, I think we should also be wary to not embrace technology and media to the point of using it as a creative crutch, as much of the truly magical theatrical experiences are accomplished when the clever use of physical set pieces and costuming can achieve a perfect suspension of disbelief from the audience, which I feel like media can sometimes disrupt if used improperly.
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