According to academics at Aberdeen University a “3D television system which would display holographic images floating in mid air – reminiscent of a famous scene from Star Wars – could be a reality in households within the next decade“.
Always excited by technological developments of this kind, I, naturally, immediately started playing with the possibilities. For example, imagine how much more entertaining it would have been watching a holographic representation of John Sergeant on Strictly Come Dancing! The National Geographic channels would spring to life in a whole new way. Lions would disembowel zebras on your living room carpet and gorillas would groom the family labrador. In the summer, the rain during the Wimbledon tennis championships would seem all the more rainy — and then there’s those dodgy pay-per-view channels that I never ever subscribe to (honest.) The possibilities are endless.
And then something else occurred to me. Wait a minute, I thought as the Virgin Media van pulled up outside, I have enough trouble with my relatively ordinary V+ box as it is!
Conclusion: I’m only interested in this technology if Virgin Media has nothing at all to do with it! 🙂
Hahaha. Indeed, very cool technological idea, would definitely take off just because… honestly, how long have some people thought of how cool holographic displays would be? Excluding Star Trek fans… still quite a number of people.
Wonderful closing paragraph as well, made me laugh. Cheers.
Glad you enjoyed it! It really would be something, wouldn’t it — or, I should say, it really will be something, won’t it?!
Of course, you just know that they will be to competing formats, don’t you? A la VHS/Betamax, Blu-Ray/HD DVD!
Some things never change 😉
I personally think we’ll go more organic.
As the ‘credit crunch’ bites even harder, I predict only the richest shall have in-room entertainment, provided by the poor, who they employ as actors.
I, of course, will be too busy making love to Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Hurley to partake one way or the other.
Nah, technology will continue to become more sophisticated and cheaper, dude, even (or especially) during recessionary times. By 2020 we’ll all have our very own virtual Elizabeth Hurleys. Virtual Celeb-Shags will be the Swatch watches of the 2020s, mark my words. Cheap, fashionable and, ultimately, highly disposable.