Scientists Invent Device to Tele-Transport 3-D Images
Baku, November 5 (AZERTAC). Researchers have invented a system that creates holographic, three-dimensional images that may be viewed at another site, VOA reports.
Imagine seeing in 3-D without the aid of 3-D glasses, or being seen in a room in three-dimensions without being there. A system that makes it possible is the brainchild of optical scientists at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Lead researcher Nasser Peyghambarian says the machine could potentially transport a person`s image over vast distances.
Peyghambarian says the technology uses holographic imaging, 3-D pictures that look real, transmitted to a remote location.
"So pretty much then, you do not have to travel," said Peyghambarian. "People can see you just the way you are as if you had been there."
In experiments with the system, researchers used 16 cameras arranged in a semi-circle, photographing their subjects from different perspectives.
The data then are transmitted via the Internet to another location. Peyghambarian says a laser system at the other end codes the information and makes a holograph on a new type of plastic material.
He says images are continuously written, erased and rewritten on the new material.
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