Reuters report on how Jeska on a little robot coming at Philip's call...
Speaking of nano stuff, look at how these nanoclusters are going to make 3d worlds in real life...
University of Central Florida assistant professor Jayan Thomas, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Rongchao Jin, has developed a new material based on gold nanoparticles smaller than 2 nanometers, in a regime between atoms and nanoparticles called nanoclusters.
Thomas and his team found that nanoclusters developed by adding atoms in a sequential manner could provide interesting new optical properties that make them suitable for creating surfaces that would diffuse laser beams of high energy.
More reason to listen to Kid Mercury from avc.com comments and horde gold, eh?
Thomas is also exploring the use of these particles in the polymer material used for 3D telepresence to make it more sensitive to light. If successful, it can take current polymers a step closer to developing real time 3D telepresence.
3D-Telepresence, aka the holodeck, would provide a holographic illusion to a viewer who is present in another location by giving that person a 360-degree view (in 3D) of everything that’s going on. It’s a step beyond 3-D and is expected to revolutionize the way people see television and in how they participate in activities around the world. For example, by allowing a viewer to “walk around” a remote location as if in a virtual game, a surgeon could help execute a complicated medical procedure from thousands of miles away.
The holodeck has different meanings to different people -- where did it originate? But in Second Life, it's only a thing within the virtual world, not the virtual world itself. It's a scene-caster that goes to 250 meters and rezzes out scenes, like, oh, Japanese homes or Wild West saloons for RP, and then at a click of the mouse, folds everything up or changes to another scene.
Go back and watch the end of that video from Reuters with Philip and see him call to Jeska, and see a robot with her face on its video walk up to Philip in the room.
You know, this sounds expensive. I don't see it happening any time soon. The reason i-phones took off is that people can control them. They stay small, in the palm of your hand. The immersive virtual world on the big desktop computer didn't take off because people don't avatarize well and virtualize, it makes them uncomfortable. And don't forget how people never liked those virtual-world goggles that made them dizzy, too.
I'm really not so sure people are going to like having their real world space made into a virtual world, but maybe controllable parts like wall screens or flat surfaces with touch screens or something.
That is, I can see that robot that comes with the Skype call coming along before the gold particles start reflecting holograms and holodecks...
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