Scientist: Holographic television to become reality

Scientist: Holographic television to become reality

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the "Sex and the City" movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3-D on your coffee table.
t sounds a lot like a wacky dream, but don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3-D television that can put Cristiano Ronaldo in your living room or bring you face-to-face with life-sized versions of your gaming heroes.

The reason for renewed optimism in three-dimensional technology is a breakthrough in rewritable and erasable holographic systems made earlier this year by researchers at the University of Arizona.

Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university's Optical Sciences department, told CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.

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Well I think this is breaking news!! Could you believe watching T.V and then suddenly the characters popping out of the screen like they were in your own living room?
Now the questions is...Will it be available for mass production in the near future? They say "no" others say "yes" so we have no way of knowing

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[edit on 9-10-2008 by ThePowerOfOne]