Forget about video calls or meetings via Zoom because that is now in the past. Technology has improved so much that hologram meetings have become the new way of connecting to people.
Leading tech company Microsoft introduced Mesh which is described as a "new mixed reality platform that will allow people in different places to join and share holographic experiences."
Additionally, Wild 94.9 reported that it would give the user the experience of being in concerts, theater, or in the company of their family and friends even when they are not physically there.
So how does this technology works?
The Science of Holograms
The culmination of many different research groups' work is the first hologram that was created 50 years ago. But since then, the understanding of optics has grown, and scientists and artists have developed novel techniques and types of materials.
According to Physics Central, it significantly changed hologram technology from merely crude representations of objects to tools used in various fields, such as medicine, art, business, and the government.
A hologram is defined as the 3D virtual image of an object created from the data or information stored in the holographic plate, which is like a CD containing information that can be used to reconstruct an object.
There are different types of holograms, but they all work by recording interference patterns of light waves caused by an object. At first glance, a holographic plate does not look much, but the pattern of light scattering off of the original object when illuminated recreates it in a 3D virtual image.
Furthermore, the information stored in the plate is permanent. But with recent advances in technology, humans are getting closer to holographic techniques, such as shown in the Star Wars franchise, wherein moving holograms in one place can be shown somewhere else.
Microsoft Introduces Mesh, the Mixed Reality Holographic Technology
According to The Verge, Microsoft Mesh is a collaborative platform that allows anyone to share holographic experiences on various devices.
Microsoft's Alex Kipman, the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens, said that this had been the dream for mixed reality, giving people the feeling of sharing content in the same place and teleport from various mixed reality devices, and be virtually present with people.
Kipman even appeared as a "holoportation" on the Ignite virtual stage while narrating the opening of the technology's real-time experience.
According to Microsoft, Mesh is the result of many years of research and development in hand and eye-tracking and HoloLens to make persistent holograms and AI models that can produce expressive avatars.
The company added that the new platform was built on Azure and will benefit from its enterprise-grade security and privacy features, vast computational resources, data, AI, and mixed reality services.
Microsoft Mesh is useful in various fields and will allow more collaborative meetings between geographically distributed teams. It will help people conduct virtual design sessions, assist others, learn together, and host social gatherings without physically being in the same room.
Architects, engineers, designers, and those in the medical field could easily meet, collaborate, design, and learn together with their holoportation avatars via Microsoft Mesh.
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