Thanks to innovative hologram technology, university students may soon be able to attend lectures by long-dead pioneers like Albert Einstein and Coco Chanel, according to a report. .
Some universities are already using holographic technology to welcome the world's greatest innovators and artists, like Michael Jackson, into their classrooms. The Guardian newspaper reported.
The technology can also send 3D images of speakers around the world.
UK's Loughborough University plans to send scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT].
Students “absolutely love” the hologram guest speakers, Professor Vicky Locke, head of undergraduate research at Loughborough Business School, told the Guardian.
As opposed to the static experience of staring at a flat screen, students much prefer “guest speakers from industry beaming into the classroom rather than a two-dimensional figure on the wall,” she added.
The paper said the technology will officially become part of university curriculum in 2025, after a year of work out.
Los Angeles-based company Proto makes box-based holographic units and sells them to major companies such as BT and IBM, which use holographic units at corporate meetings to reduce the need for travel. ing.
According to the Guardian, Proto is also working with Swedish fashion retailer H&M to create interactive product displays.
Proto founder David Nussbaum said he started the company four years ago after working on holograms of deceased celebrities. He now envisions bringing back some of history's greatest minds with the help of artificial intelligence.
“Proto has the technology to project images of Stephen Hawking and other people to make it look like they're there,” Nussbaum told the Guardian. “You can connect everything he was obsessed with – books, lectures, social media – the questions, the interactions with him. AI Stephen his Hawking looks just like him, the same voice and interact as if it were him.
Experiencing this technology is “awe-inspiring,” he said.
Nussbaum wants to make the technology more accessible to the average person, saying, “You don't have to be an eccentric billionaire or celebrity to have a hologram.”
Within the next 18 months, he said he hopes to roll out smaller units that project smaller holographic images for about $1,000 each.
He likened the product to Willy Wonka's “WonkaVision” from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
Loughborough University's pro-vice-chancellor Rachel Thomson said the technology would help the university meet its sustainability goals by allowing guest speakers, such as MIT scientists, to speak without having to travel across the Atlantic. Stated.
