YOU SPEAK.THE ROOM RESPONDS. 💎We have spent a century building and improving screens.Bigger. Thinner. Brighter. Screens in our pockets, on our desks, on our wrists, in our glasses and now literally strapped to our faces.But perhaps the interesting question is not how much better the screen can become.Perhaps it is whether we need the bloody screen at all.Researchers have already demonstrated volumetric displays that create tiny three-dimensional images in the air by moving and illuminating microscopic particles with lasers.No headset. No flat panel. A 3D image occupying actual space.Now, before anyone throws their television out, this is still laboratory technology. Tiny images, difficult engineering, enormous scaling problems. Any claims that televisions are about to become obsolete are wildly premature.But the direction fascinates me.I keep thinking about the Star Trek computer, with technology becoming less like a collection of devices and more like part of the room itself.You ask t...
YOU SPEAK.THE ROOM RESPONDS. 💎We have spent a century building and improving screens.Bigger. Thinner. Brighter. Screens ...
