Important Innovations Collection

Facetime and Zoom Video Calls with a Big New Dimension Source:  Portl Holograms in Your Home Los Angeles startup Portl has unveiled a new device that adds an epic, extra dimension to your Facetiming and Zooming video calls. The Portl M is a table-top piece of technology with the potential to totally revolutionize everyday communications, particularly during this time of ongoing pandemics greatly reducing in-person meetings and conversations.  Essentially, Portl M allows you and the person that you're talking with to be beamed into each other's home or office as a hologram.  On their website, the company says you can call it "telepresence". How Does It Work?  With Artificial Intelligence Plus Both parties on the videocall will need to have the M machine.  The machines can beam a 3-D image of each caller from one M to the other M.  The key to the process is M's artificial intelligence (AI) enabled cameras.  The AI camera tapes you and creates a vide...

Augmented Reality, Intelligent Edge Device for Holograms Source:  Microsoft HoloLens 2 Greater Immersion, Comfort, Time-to-Value Microsoft just released its HoloLens 2 device at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.  It's a smaller, more powerful version of the AR headset with a much larger field of view.  The company hails this augmented reality device as part of a new era in computing.  A time when the digital world goes beyond 2D screens into the 3D digital world.  They say the device will enable new collaborative computing, working together with ease in real-time in 3D. Here are the Advancements Microsoft is Touting: Immersion that is greatly enhanced making holograms more vibrant and realistic. They've doubled the field of view in HoloLens 2.  It has a new display system with greater performance.  It also has a new time-in-flight depth sensor, combined with built-in AI and semantic understanding, that let's you manipulate hologram...