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Holograms to preserve Holocaust survivor stories

Craig Lloyd — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:27:24 +0000

The Holocaust is one of the most well-known events in history, and while there are still a handful of survivors out there, that number is quickly dipping. So, in order to preserve stories from survivors of the Holocaust, USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute have begun working on full-body interactive

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iPhone holographic display created with prism crystal

Brittany Hillen — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:55:31 +0000

A Japanese man posted a YouTube video showing a real hologram created using a prism crystal, bits of cardboard, and his iPhone. The video shows a holographic Siri dancing around inside the prism, which can be viewed from different perspectives as the camera moves around the prism. The best part? The setup is so simple,

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Pioneer reveals compact 3D color hologram printer

Chris Davies — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:36:49 +0000

Business cards are boring, even if you slot NFC inside them, but the swish business fellow around town could change all that with a home-made hologram card. Pioneer Corporation‘s idea of what construes a “compact” hologram printer might not exactly tally with ours – it’s roughly the size of a large briefcase – but considering

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R2-D2 plays Tupac – it had to happen

Chris Burns — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:34:59 +0000

It had to happen. Just days after Coachella played host to the other-worldly return of the legendary rapper Tupac Shakur 16 years after his death, (Star Wars) Rebel Alliance member R2-D2 has been found to have played a part in his resurrection. Created in part by Sethward Productions, you Star Wars fans are about to

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Why it took holographic Tupac to put the dead on tour

Chris Burns — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:53:06 +0000

This week the web is buzzing with news that Tupac Shakur’s return to this world as a holographic computer-generated image at Coachella may have changed the way we think of the art of representing the dead for entertainment. If Tupac, aka 2-Pac or Machiavelli as he so referred to himself on stage this week, can

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Tupac hologram team reveals secrets and tour plans

Shane McGlaun — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:27:57 +0000

Yesterday I mentioned that Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre had a holographic Tupac on stage at the Coachella music festival in California. The performance certainly left the audience and many people on the web awestruck at the realistic hologram that bought Tupac back to the stage for the first time since he died in 1996.

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Tupac performs from the grave live at Coachella

Shane McGlaun — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:43 +0000

The things we can do with technology today never cease to impress. It’s become normal in movies for computer-animated actors to be bought back from the dead or projected as younger versions of themselves along the lines of the younger Jeff Bridges in the new Tron film. Computer animation is a long way from projecting

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