Gadget aims to put 3D person ‘in your palm’
| Researchers in Japan are developing a gadget that could enable people to hold a three-dimensional image of someone in the palm of their hand.
They hope the gCubik, which is still at the prototype stage, will later be developed to move in real time and appear to speak. “The ultimate image we have in mind is having a small person in your palm,” said Shunsuke Yoshida, one of the researchers involved in the study at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. “Suppose you have a picture of your girlfriend smiling on your desk. She could be smiling as a 3D image in a cube,” he told AFP at a recent gathering of imaging researchers here. Grandparents could use the device — which comes in a 10 centimetre (3.9 inches) cube — to see a 3D image of their grandchild living far away, while business people could view a prototype product from afar and school teachers could use it in science classes, he said. |
As usual, much potential for good. And evil.
I’d say the pornography kings are gleeful at the prospects of putting this technology to work for them.
Maybe they’re even funding it! 😯
But how would you envision using it for good?
As one who’s extremely interested in teaching and encouraging and discipling pastors in Mexico through pastors’ conferences and seminars, I could dream of doing multiple simultaneous such seminars with one of these things.
Oh, wait! This can already be done with video.
Besides, I’d rather be there in the flesh.
Anyway, what are your ideas?
Oh, here’s another one: Instead of having them sing to me from my CD player, I could have A Cappella Harmony Quartet sitting between my keyboard and my monitor!
Oh my. I can’t see that particular use catching on!