BBC tests holographic touch TV like sci-fi

With this technology, the British media company has created a form of television viewing experience with holographic images.

In a blog explaining the new technology, the BBC said it had created holographic television using "existing technology and simple techniques."

Here's how BBC's holographic TV technology works:

The BBC placed a large flat-screen television horizontally with the screen facing up. Next, BBC engineers used a plastic cutter to cut clear glass panels, joining them into a simple acrylic pyramid shape.

By placing the top of the pyramid on the screen, BBC engineers created reflections from the screen below onto the pyramid's glass panels.

The BBC worked with visual effects company MDH Hologram to tweak some of the illustrated archive footage and bring it to life in the acrylic pyramid. Images include New Year's Eve fireworks at the London Eye and a T. Rex and a dinosaur walking.

“The devices we’ve created give us a very simple, low-cost way to access and experience ‘swimming’ images of augmented and mixed reality devices that are not available to the public to experience, and could be used to watch BBC content in the future,” said BBC head of digital partnerships Cyrus Saihan.

The project is still in its early stages, so there are limitations, Saihan added, such as it only works with certain types of images and needs to be viewed in low light conditions. The pyramid is also relatively small.

“Our experiment is quite simple, this new technology is still on the horizon but it has the potential to completely change the way audiences experience media content in the future,” Saihan said./.

According to vietnamplus.