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Decentral Anthony Di Iorio made his fortune as an early adopter of hot cryptocurrencies bitcoin and ethereum. Now, the cryptocurrency billionaire is spending some of his cash on two video game-inspired real estate projects in Toronto. Di Iorio recently purchased two spaces in Toronto. One is a 15,000 square foot office space for his blockchain […]
Light Field Lab has raised $ 7 million for holographic display technologies that the company says will make you wonder whether what you’re seeing is real or an illusion. The money comes from Khosla Ventures and Sherpa Capital, with participation from R7 Partners. It’s a large amount of money for a seed round, but the […]
Jon Hamm as a hologram sounds like a future I want to live in. He stars alongside Lois Smith, Geena Davis, and Tim Robbins in director Michael Almereyda‘s (Experimenter) science-fiction drama, Marjorie Prime. The movie was well-received at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Below, watch the Marjorie Prime trailer. In the future, there’s a company providing holographs of the deceased. Jon Hamm is […]
A lot of the technology billed as holographic, well, isn’t. Not even HoloLens. Real holography requires a laser-generated 3D image, and it’s no mean feat to stuff that into something you can comfortably wear. Microsoft just made some important progress, however. Its researchers have developed a true, near-eye holographic whose optics can fit inside a […]
Jarem Archer, a developer and UX designer, has built himself an actual Cortana personal assistant. Not just the voice like you get on Microsoft devices: an animated Cortana from the Halo series, presented in the form of a hologram. There’s a lot of stuff going on here: there’s a tiny PC that’s actually powering Cortana […]
Image credit: ABC 7. Somewhere in the Cubs locker room is the proud owner of a number of a number of rare Pokémon cards, including a holographic Zapdos, the legendary electric bird that first appeared over 20 years ago in Red and Blue. The collection, hanging below some cleats in a plastic binder slip case, […]
Fed up with the world-weary, jaded expressions of your additive manufacturing friends, who think they’ve seen it all when it comes to 3D printers? If so, you may be interested in Daqri, an augmented reality startup, which has developed a cutting-edge hologram-powered 3D printer. If you’ve always felt that what was missing from 3D printing […]
8i’s production studio, from the outside, looks like any other Hollywood movie studio. A series of unremarkable brick buildings crowd the Culver City lot. It’s a place where scenes from Gone With the Wind, The Matrix, and countless other movies and TV shows have been filmed, but you wouldn’t know its spectacular history to look […]
The Planck cosmic microwave background observatory and its map of temperature fluctuations on the sky. (credit: ESA) Cosmology is a funny kind of science. At one end of the spectrum, cosmologists can explain vast swathes of the Universe with remarkable accuracy. Unfortunately, at the point where this explanation breaks down, cosmology theories don’t gently fail, […]
