Every time Google mentions Android 3.0’s holographic interface and 3D capabilities, one perhaps imageines Princess Leia’s plea to Obi Wan Kenobi played back by R2D2 in “Star Wars.” Android 3.0, aka “Honeycomb,” is claimed to have a redesigned holographic user interface and 3D. But just what does Google mean by those terms? Will our mobile devices show holograms of two parties in a conversation? And will those holograms be in 3D? Or, like Humpty Dumpty in “Alice in Wonderland,” who said words mean what he choose them to mean, is Google redefining the term “3D?”
Thanks for pointing out the questionable nature of the use of the term "holographic" - but you barely scratched the surface of the deep bogosity surrounding this misuse of the concept. You let them off easy - it's clear from your article that there does not now exist any technology for real-time holographic images, and therefore Google doesn't have it, either.
Humpty Dumpty, indeed. Holography is much more, and *much* more complicated, than "mere" 3-D. Anyone who says it's only a few years away is smoking something funny.
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Honeycomb's Holography: Hope or Hooey?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari February 4, 2011 05:00 AMEvery time Google mentions Android 3.0’s holographic interface and 3D capabilities, one perhaps imageines Princess Leia’s plea to Obi Wan Kenobi played back by R2D2 in “Star Wars.” Android 3.0, aka “Honeycomb,” is claimed to have a redesigned holographic user interface and 3D. But just what does Google mean by those terms? Will our mobile devices show holograms of two parties in a conversation? And will those holograms be in 3D? Or, like Humpty Dumpty in “Alice in Wonderland,” who said words mean what he choose them to mean, is Google redefining the term “3D?”
Humpty Dumpty, indeed. Holography is much more, and *much* more complicated, than "mere" 3-D. Anyone who says it's only a few years away is smoking something funny.
Wikipedia has a good introductory article.
- rob