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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Transmitting Holograms for Remote Experience

Do we need a hologram machine in every home?  For telemedicine and work?   Replacing our zoom stadia?   So we might have crowds of realistic holograms in situ?  Is it necessary, and what is really necessary at all anymore?  Now much improved,  since seeing them first at Disneyworld.  Would be impressive, am in for the idea.

PORTL Hologram raises $3M to put a hologram machine in every home  By Jonathan Shieber@jshieber in TechCruch

What does a hologram-obsessed entrepreneur do for a second act after setting up a virtual Ronald Reagan in the Reagan Memorial Library, or beaming Jimmy Kimmel all the way from Hollywood to the Country Music Awards in Nashville?

If that entrepreneur is David Nussbaum, the founder of PORTL Hologram, the next logical step is to build a machine that can bring the joy of hologram-based communication to the masses.

That’s the goal thanks to a new $3 million round that Nussbaum’s company raised from famed venture investor Tim Draper,  former Electronic Arts executive Doug Barry and longtime awards-show producer Joe Lewis.

Barry is not only backing the company, he’s also coming on board as its first chief operating officer.

Much of this interest can be traced back to the hologram performance given posthumously by Tupac Shakur back at Coachella about eight years ago.

Nussbaum turned the excitement generated by that event into a business. He bought the patents that powered Tupac’s beyond-the-grave performance, and used the technology to beam Julian Assange out of the Ecuadoran embassy he had been holed up in during his years in London and making dead stars live (and tour) again.

Those visual feats were basically just an updated version of the Pepper’s Ghost technique that stage illusionists and moviemakers have been using since it was invented by John Pepper in the 19th century. ... ' 

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