Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Hype or not? Holoferencing.

Is this a new hype or is it a the paradigm shift in groupworking? Imagine, holorooms all over the world where people can meet and see, hear, interact as if they were in the same room. Holoferencing! Is this future or is it possible today?

A room in every office building or one per office area where one is scanned and ones coördinates within the room is exchanged with the other rooms where group members reside. Microphones to record and locate sound throughout the room. Holograms displaying members of the group in other holorooms. Audio system producing the sound of voice at coördinations in the holoroom as if the person is in the room at the specific spot. Presentation screen to share presentations as if all members are in one and the same room. "Beam me up, Scotty" in reversed mode. No physical move of bodies to one location but transfer of images to several holorooms giving the imagination of being in one room with one team.