Holographic Environments And Storage

by:
Bhaskara D

Guide:
Mrs.Nasreen Taj M B
BE,M Tech Asst Prof,Dept of ISE

Outline
Introduction
History Associated technologies Advantages of technology Current trends Working Application Conclusion References

Introduction
Holographic

environments are simulated environments that will allow you to interact with people that located thousands of miles away.

This technology is also called as tele-immersion.

Employees from New York, Paris, London, Bangalore will be able to meet in a tele-immersive environment and shake hands with holographic images of their coworkers.

History Of Tele-immersion
Tele Immersion was first invented and developed by Jaron

Lanier (often titled father of virtual reality) Lanier is the founder of VPN or virtual programming language. He first developed a system called RB2 which made virtual reality travel long distances. Although it only transferred graphics, it was able to transfer the motions of people conveying a sense of reality. Tele-immersion takes virtual reality to the next level.

Steps in constructing a holographic environment:

The computer recognizes the presence and movements of people and
objects. The computer tracks those images. The computer projects those images on a stereo immersive surface.

Associated technologies
Internet2:- This would replace the current internet

infrastructure. This new network will have a higher bandwidth and speeds 1000 times faster than today's Internet. Display Technologies:- Stereo-immersive displays would have to present a clear view of the scenes being transmitted. Desktop Supercomputers:- These would perform the trillions of calculations needed to create a holographic environments. Haptic Sensors:- These will allow people to touch the projections as if they were real.

Areas Of Use
Business meetings or conferencing
Education Medicine Research and Development Even the restaurant industry

Advantages of the technology

Cut down on our transportation needs. resources.

Reduction in the worldwide consumption of natural

Education field
It has a great advantage in the by combining tele-

conferencing, tele-presence and virtual reality teleimmersion will enable teachers to interact with 3-D models point ,gesture ,converse and see each other.

Medical field - Virtual surgery

Holographic Data Storage

Holographic

Memory

vs Present Storage devices

CDs - can hold 783 megabytes of data DVDs- A double-sided, double-layer DVD can hold 15.9 GB of data.

Holographic memory offers the possibility of storing 1 terabyte (TB) of data in a sugar-cube-sized crystal. Data from more than 1,000 CDs could fit on a holographic memory

system.
Most computer hard drives only hold 10 to 40 GB of data, a small fraction of what a holographic memory system might hold.

How Holographic Storage Works

Here are the basic components that are needed to construct an HDSS: Blue-green argon laser Beam splitters to spilt the laser beam Mirrors to direct the laser beams LCD panel (spatial light modulator) Lenses to focus the laser beams Lithium-niobate crystal or photopolymer Charge-coupled device (CCD) camera

Current trends
Virtual office interior -business conference.
Remote supercomputer. Virtual object simulators.

Challenges
Development of suitable storage materials.
Holographic media must satisfy stringent criteria high dynamic range high photosensitivity dimensional stability

Areas Of Use
The areas of application of holographic storage are endless. Consider having your entire music collection on a single disc or storing 100 movies on a small crystal. Also the 3-dimensional data required to be transferred in tele-immersion would require this kind of storage. The ability to pass billions or trillions of bytes of data via the internet will make world wide wait a thing of the past

Conclusion
Holographic environment
There are many beneficial results from this technology

ranging from teaching to business conferencing to medicine etc. Tele-immersion is a huge breakthrough in technology because it will make the entire world closer together

Holographic Storage
Once released its definitely going to change the way we store

and access data. As many as 100 movies could be stored on a single disc or your entire music collection could be stored on a small crystal.

References

How holographic environments and holographic memory will work by Kevin Bonsor Website of lucent technologies (Bell Labs) www.sciencentralnews.com by Joyce Gramza Website of NTII (National Tele-Immersion Initiative) Tele-Immersion by David Gentry