You just have to see this demo. Complete with Star Trek jokes, Cisco kingpin John Chambers demos 3D holograms in teleconferencing with a holographic Mr. de Beer before an audience in Frankfurt, noNew York, no, in Bangalore.
"We may be in a room where if I walk around behind you I can see the back of your head," says Marthin de Beer, head of Cisco's emerging technologies group and holograph of the day.
The new hologram technology is the result of a collaboration between Cisco and Musion, a UK-based company specialising in 3D projection.
Now 3D videoconferencing is a wow, but thats not the reason why this news item is filed under Residential Systems & Digital Home. The bigger news story, our humble opinion, is that if you listen carefully to John Chambers you will hear that Cisco plans to bring this technology down to consumer level. OK, maybe not next yearbut watch out as Cisco becomes the next Sony. No kidding here.
Go to the YouTube video on Cisco 3D