>> ^ponceleon:

It is good, but I disagree that it is the "good kind of 3d."
I'm still waiting for REAL 3d projection. Like in Star-Wars where they project the deathstar as an actual 3d object in the air.


They aren't as far as you think.

Your video, Holographic map, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

When the holographic doctor from Voyager stars in a film, you know it's gotta suck. Never mind the part about Urkel, after like a 20 year hiatus...

But seriously. A giant shark AND an giant crocodile AT THE SAME TIME?! I believe it!

That's hugely impressive... I'm amazed at how real it looks.

From the Huffington Post:

In what is surely a terrible omen not only for musicians but also the continued existence of the world as we know it, holographs are now playing sold out concerts in, where else, Japan.

>> ^BoneRemake:

"Euler's Disk" is a trademark for a product manufactured and distributed by the "Damert Company" (Toysmith Group), consisting of a metal disk, a base having an upwards-facing concave mirror, and holographic, patterned magnetic stickers. One or more magnetic stickers may be attached to the top surface of the disk. The disk, when spun on the mirror, exhibits a spinning/rolling motion. Euler’s Disk has an optimized aspect ratio and precision polished, rounded edges to maximize the spinning/rolling time. A coin spun on a table, or any disc spun on a relatively flat surface, exhibits essentially the same type of motion.
A spinning/rolling disk ultimately comes to rest; and it does so quite abruptly, the final stage of motion being accompanied by a whirring sound of rapidly increasing frequency. As the disk rolls, the point P of rolling contact describes a circle that oscillates with a constant angular velocity ω. If the motion is non-dissipative, ω is constant and the motion persists forever, contrary to observation (since ω is not constant in real life situations).
In the April 20, 2000 edition of Nature, Keith Moffatt shows that viscous dissipation in the thin layer of air between the disk and the table is sufficient to account for the observed abruptness of the settling process. He also showed that the motion concluded in a finite-time singularity.
Moffatt shows that, as time t approaches a particular time t0 (which is mathematically a constant of integration), the viscous dissipation approaches infinity. The singularity that this implies is not realized in practice because the vertical acceleration cannot exceed the acceleration due to gravity in magnitude. Moffatt goes on to show that the theory breaks down at a time τ before the final settling time t0, given by
\tau\simeq\left(2a/9g\right)^{3/5} \left(2\pi\mu a/M\right)^{1/5}
where a is the radius of the disk, g is the acceleration due to Earth's gravity, μ the dynamic viscosity of air, and M the mass of the disk. For the commercial toy (see link below), τ is about 10 − 2 seconds, at which \alpha\simeq 0.005 and the rolling angular velocity \Omega\simeq 500\rm Hz.
Using the above notation, the total spinning time is
t_0=\left(\frac{\alpha_0^3}{2\pi}\right)\frac{M}{\mu a}
where α0 is the initial inclination of the disk. Moffatt also showed that, if t0 − t > τ, the finite-time singularity in Ω is given by.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_disk


Nerd.

"Euler's Disk" is a trademark for a product manufactured and distributed by the "Damert Company" (Toysmith Group), consisting of a metal disk, a base having an upwards-facing concave mirror, and holographic, patterned magnetic stickers. One or more magnetic stickers may be attached to the top surface of the disk. The disk, when spun on the mirror, exhibits a spinning/rolling motion. Euler’s Disk has an optimized aspect ratio and precision polished, rounded edges to maximize the spinning/rolling time. A coin spun on a table, or any disc spun on a relatively flat surface, exhibits essentially the same type of motion.

A spinning/rolling disk ultimately comes to rest; and it does so quite abruptly, the final stage of motion being accompanied by a whirring sound of rapidly increasing frequency. As the disk rolls, the point P of rolling contact describes a circle that oscillates with a constant angular velocity ω. If the motion is non-dissipative, ω is constant and the motion persists forever, contrary to observation (since ω is not constant in real life situations).

In the April 20, 2000 edition of Nature, Keith Moffatt shows that viscous dissipation in the thin layer of air between the disk and the table is sufficient to account for the observed abruptness of the settling process. He also showed that the motion concluded in a finite-time singularity.

Moffatt shows that, as time t approaches a particular time t0 (which is mathematically a constant of integration), the viscous dissipation approaches infinity. The singularity that this implies is not realized in practice because the vertical acceleration cannot exceed the acceleration due to gravity in magnitude. Moffatt goes on to show that the theory breaks down at a time τ before the final settling time t0, given by

\tau\simeq\left(2a/9g\right)^{3/5} \left(2\pi\mu a/M\right)^{1/5}

where a is the radius of the disk, g is the acceleration due to Earth's gravity, μ the dynamic viscosity of air, and M the mass of the disk. For the commercial toy (see link below), τ is about 10 − 2 seconds, at which \alpha\simeq 0.005 and the rolling angular velocity \Omega\simeq 500\rm Hz.

Using the above notation, the total spinning time is

t_0=\left(\frac{\alpha_0^3}{2\pi}\right)\frac{M}{\mu a}

where α0 is the initial inclination of the disk. Moffatt also showed that, if t0 − t > τ, the finite-time singularity in Ω is given by.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_disk

No personal jetpacks... no flying cars... no 3D holographic TVs. But instead we have lego robots you can jerk off... The future is now.

Maybe I'm too easily suckered by gimicks, but I'm looking forward to the 3DS. I think I enjoyed the DS more than any hand-held to date. It just had lots of great games, versatile controls, and critically the system and games cost about 30% less than their competitor. The same thing, only with a bigger screen, higher resolution, better processor, analog stick, accelerometer and gyroscope would have been enough to get my pre-order. But the glassesless 3D really does sound sort of cool. I've been wanting that ever since that bit in Back To The Future 2 were the holographic shark eats Michael J. Fox. I'm pretty sure it will be just like that.

All of other games I'm looking forward to are due to the developer track record, The Old Republic(Bioware), Portal 2(Valve) and Warhammer 40k: Space Marine(Relic). Though with that last one I seem to be alone.

What the fuck is wrong with someone, reacting to a non sequitur? (I know how some folks can get hung up on words used in or out of context on the site.....Well, shall we analyze??

The video obviously has nothing to do with several of the tags I used...Kellogs, Obama, Pfizer or waterboarding-Nor did I expect the damn thing to get published given the stick planted firmly in the asses of a majority of the people on the site, who would rather
the convenience and comfort of remaining virtually asleep and unconscious concerning the multi-layered world they live in. It's predictable, it's programmed, it's human, it's robotic.

The theme my friend?? I have maintained the same persona here in the face of derision, misunderstanding, and the collective developmental disabilities of so many folks. I have been called a troll and gladly embrace the distinction, for it is who I am in the world of flesh and blood as well. I have many acquaintances, friends and foes, allies and enemies, the same goes with the internet.

Project Bluebeam existed or still exists, and involves holographic deception on a grand scale.The technology is there, as evidenced in the giant hologram over Moscow of a pyramid, which is all over the internet should you wish to do the research. Do you think it strange that of the ilk of the fundamentalists on the planet that staging the second coming of Christ is outside of the realm of possibility??

I encourage the downvoting, as I have always tried here to get people to drop a fucking nut and use the powers afforded them to express themselves. I never expected for a second that this video be published. I find it sophomoric and poorly executed as well, however, information is information is information.

If you see Jesus coming in the clouds, it's probably the blackest form of the dark arts, from the most putrid examples of humankind.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
What's with the negro tag? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Good intentions from someone who is mentally ill. Icke doesn't worry me - it's the followers, a bunch of deluded pseudo-geeks who think so much of themselves.

I hate their sense of self importance, looking at the horrifying WTC videos, smirking and saying 'THERE is the holographic missile, you can't fool ME! People are such sheep'.

Bunch of schizos.. they need help.

No, he is actually correct. A hologram is a very specific thing. You could say maybe that these are holographic, as in they have elements of a hologram, but they are not holograms.

It would be like saying the print out of a jpg from facebook is a photograph.

Spoco, I'm not sure you are right. Holograms store interference fringes from a diffraction grating in holographic media. You can then take the burned media and shine light (same wavelength as the original incident light) on it from the reverse angle (originating from where the scattered light would have landed behind the media) and you will get an image of the original diffraction grating projected on a screen (or eye). you can store entirely different fringe patterns at different angles in the same spot (within the limits set by the physical lattice of the media and the wavelength of light being used), but in typical holograms you store the fringe pattern of the SAME grating at a different angle.

It looks like these things accomplish these end result: a recording of fringes for a given diffraction grating on a media. Sure, the images aren't actually produced by light, but I don't think that is a requirement. The point is that his scratching pattern contains the information required to reconstruct the point sources that would have created such an image for multiple incident angles.

This is what makes holographic data storage so exciting, storing a whole X by X grid worth of information on some Y by Y by Y chunk of media, and storing ANOTHER X by X grid of info ON THE SAME SPOT at a different angle.

PS I'm drunk. and this guy is my hero.

Funny story: My little brother, my girlfriend and I have a RockBand group (he drums, she guitars, I sings) and it's a lot of fun. The day the Nirvana pack came out, he asked if he could print out some tab on my CPU and it turned out to be the bass tab for this song (he also plays real guitar and bass). I was like, "Oh, trying to learn the new RockBand DLC?" and he had no idea that the nirvana pack was out, just cosmic coincidence.

This song means a lot to me, at about 11 or 12 this album was on permanent rotation on my Walkman, notably during a camping trip our family took. I still remember proudly wearing my Batman Returns hat with it's holographic tag still attached, trying to impress my old role model: my cousin; and my new role model, my new step-brother. I doubt I impressed anyone, but the three of us roamed the campgrounds, kings of the world. And for that one weekend in the woods I felt like I was on the same level as they were. Blasting Nevermind across the campgrounds, pissing off anyone within earshot. Male bonding at its finest.

This song was my realization that I would forever be showing my non-conformity by conforming.

---
Truth - covered in security
I can't let you smother me
I'd Like to, but it couldn't work
Trading off, taking turns
Don't regret a thing
And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel and I
Wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield
I'll go outta my way to prove I still
Smell her on you

Don't - tell me what I wanna hear
Afraid of never knowing fear
Experience anything you need
I'll keep fighting jealousy
'til it's fucking gone

And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel and I
Wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield
I'll go outta my way to prove I still
Smell her on you

Truth - covered in security
I can't let you smother me
Like to but it couldn't work
Trading off, taking turns
Don't regret a thing
And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel and I
Wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield
I'll go outta my way to make you a deal
We've made a pact to learn from who
And ever we want without new rules
We'll share what's lost and what we grew
They'll go out of their way
To prove they still

Smell her on you
They still, Smell her on you
Smell her on you
----

Longest post I'll ever post, promise.

I guess I should have told someone about that holograph idea back in 2002, after all.

No problem. Though I did have a 'gee I swear I posted a video yesterday momment, till it clicked what happened

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I am REALLY sorry to tell you this, crosstrooper, but this is a dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Real-motion-3D-projection-in-a-piramid

It's one of my favorite videos here too. That's how I remembered it. *Discard. Sorry.