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>O2 VISIONS >> New way to create true-color 3-D holograms
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Researchers discover way to create true-color 3-D holograms
by Bob Yirka
A view of a 3-dimensional green crane reconstructed by white-light illumination.
Credit: Image © Science/AAAS
(PhysOrg.com) — Satoshi Kawata,
Miyu Ozaki and their team of photonics physicists at Osaka University in Japan, have figured out a way to capture the original colors of an object in a still 3-D hologram by using plasmons (quantums of plasma oscillation) that are created when a silver sheathed material is bathed in simple white light. The discovery marks a new milestone in the development of true 3-D full color holograms. In their paper, published in Science magazine, the researchers show a rendered apple in all its natural red and green hues…
Holograms, of course, have been around for years, with the first images created in the 60’s. Back then the technique was to fire a laser at an object and then record the patterns of interference in the light waves onto a photo sensitive material. Later, rainbow type holograms (such as those used on credit cards) were, and still are, created by using a technique whereby white light is reflected off a silver backing through a plastic film that contains several different images of a single object.
Image (c) Science/AAAS
The team at Osaka took another approach, they use both lasers and white light. They first fire a laser at an object, say an apple, to create an interference pattern, but instead of just one laser color, they actually use three; red, green and blue. The interference pattern is then captured on a light sensitive material which is coated with silver (because it contains electrons that are easily excited by white light) and silicon dioxide (to help steer the waves). They then shine a steady white light on the metal sheathed material exciting the free electrons, causing the creation of surface plasmons, which results in the regeneration of the captured image as a true-color 3-D hologram; one that can be viewed from almost any angle and is the same colors as the original object.
Currently, the technique has only been shown to work on still images, and the results displayed on a very small surface area (about as big as a baseball card), but the results of research is nonetheless a very big step towards creating not just more realistic holograms, but true animated 3-D technology.
More information: “Surface-Plasmon Holography with White-Light Illumination,” by M. Ozaki et al., Science 8 April 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6026 pp. 218-220. DOI: 10.1126/science.1201045
© 2010 PhysOrg.com
>Baseball, Movies Come to Facebook
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Catch this: after you’re finished watching your Facebook rental of The Dark Knight, you can hop over to Major League Baseball’s fan page and see live streaming video of entire spring training games. Is now the time to cancel your $200 cable package and delete your Netflix subscription? Probably not.
MLB.com will provide a live stream of one spring training game per day on its Facebook fan page through the end of April, when spring training ends.
Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com, hinted at the possibility of extending the Facebook streams into the regular baseball season, but at the moment MLB.com is just using the social network as a trampoline to promote its MLB.TV subscription service. “What we’re trying to do is figure out who these fans are, whether they like it, and whether they share it,” Bowman told All Things Digital.
The MLB.TV subscription service costs between $20 and $25 a month (or $120 per year) for streams of all out-of-market regular season games and select spring training games, available online or on a mobile device. The Facebook streams are free, but the video can’t be expanded beyond the small box in your news feed; clicking on the video brings you to MLB.TV’s marketer’s den. 
Scoping out a baseball game on Facebook makes more sense than renting feature-length films (especially films that have been watched to death and available for years) because baseball, more so than movies, is a social event. Commenting on the action as the action unfolds is a staple of baseball — but a huge annoyance for movie-watching. But the question is whether people will want to turn their Facebook accounts into ragtag media centers. Judging from the mere 139 “likes” attributed to the Texas Rangers vs. Los Angeles Dodgers game, it seems to me that sports fan are sticking to the good ol’ boob tube.
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