Moving Holographic TV from the Lab to Your Living Room
V. Michael Bove, Jr.
MIT Media Lab
Holographic television -- the ultimate 3-D display technology -- has been researched for more than 20 years, but remains largely a lab curiosity. What needs to be done in order to turn it into affordable, widespread consumer electronics? In this talk I'll examine what the Media Lab and others are doing to make that happen, and will connect this with the current push for stereoscopic 3-D cinema, television, and games. I'll also explore what the availability of another sophisticated optoelectronic consumer product -- the Microsoft Kinect camera -- might suggest about the future of holo-TV.
V. Michael Bove, Jr. holds an S.B.E.E., an S.M. in Visual Studies, and a Ph.D. in Media Technology, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently head of the Object-Based Media Group at the Media Laboratory, and co-directs the Center for Future Storytelling and the consumer electronics working group CE2.0. He is the author or co-author of over 60 journal or conference papers on digital television systems, video processing hardware/software design, multimedia, scene modeling, visual display technologies, and optics. He holds patents on inventions relating to video recording, hardcopy, interactive television, and medical imaging, and has been a member of several professional and government committees. He is co-author with the late Stephen A. Benton of the book Holographic Imaging (Wiley, 2008). He is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and associate editor of Optical Engineering. He served as general chair of the 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'06), will co-chair the 2012 International Symposium on Display Holography, and is a member of Board of Governors of the National Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. Bove is a fellow of the SPIE and of the Institute for Innovation, Creativity, and Capital. He was a founder of and technical advisor to WatchPoint Media, Inc. and is technical advisor to One Laptop Per Child (creators of the XO laptop for children in developing countries).
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