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On the road to holographic video: Improvement in holographic telepresence

News: Communications    November 3, 2010
Holographic video display…..Credit: University of Arizona A video screen that refreshes the image every two seconds doesn’t do wonders for motion or animation, but it’s a darned sight better than three minutes between refresh. That’s the progress made by Nasser Peyghambarian and Pierre-Alexandre Blanche at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona [...]
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SF Review: Avatar

Review: September 10, 2010
[James Cameron’s Avatar makes a reappearance this fall of 2010 (a 3-D limited theatrical release, a new set of DVD/Blu-ray disks, stories about sequels). It’s a good excuse to write about the movie, and assume that most have already seen it.] Avatar is no more ‘just a movie’ than the first Star Wars episode was [...]
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Should junk science be banned from movies and television?

Essay: February 28, 2010
Most of you reading this will think – yeah, banning junk science that wouldn’t be bad – but you’re probably skeptical. You don’t need to work in the entertainment industry to know that scientific accuracy is almost never a priority. So a ban on bad science? Good luck with that – right? An academic complaint [...]
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