Prince Charles: The First Royal Hologram January 28, 2008
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You may have heard about Prince Charles getting all green recently by giving a different kind of speech at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.
Rather than burning up a whole mess of fossil fuels to get there, His Royalness beamed in as a life-size 3-D hologram instead. And it looked pretty good too, as you can see from this AP video. Musion Systems' hologram technology, using mirrors, did a decent job of giving the impression that the Prince was in the room, even if all the lights were off and taking questions was not an option during the 6-minute pre-recorded speech.
According to some figures, the Star Trek beaming-in saved 20 tonnes of carbon waste.
The First Royal Hologram said: “Scientists are now saying that the problem of climate change is now so grave and so urgent that we have less than 10 years to slow, stop and reverse greenhouse gas emissions. Common actions are needed in every country to protect the common inheritance that has been given to us by our creator.”
Prince Charles joins a long line of other famous folk that have already used the technology, including Al Gore, Girls Aloud and David Beckham.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
This idea is all well and good in theory but the problem is that doing meetings over any teleinterface is disruptive. At work I currently work with Three Indian staff two American staff and my manager in the UK, although we can successfully have telephone conferences it would make my job 10 times easier if I could just stand at a whiteboard and draw my ideas.