NOW YOU CAN BEAM A HOLOGRAM OF YOURSELF TO SOMEONE ELSE, NO R2D2 NEEDED

[Judi Lynn]

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Elizabeth Rayne
@quothravenrayne
Nov 7, 2020, 9:15 PM EST


When the first Star Wars movie came out in 1977, Leia could have never imagined there would eventually be something that was a level up from R2-D2 when it came to sending hologram messages.

Imagine Leia had appeared to Obi-Wan and Luke as if she had stepped through a portal. They would also see her life-size and in full color, not that ghastly shade of blue that made her look like a cosmic ghost. Now PORTL has come up with the first hologram machine ever that can do that. Plug it in and you can tell Obi-Wan he’s your only hope in minutes. It works just as well in daylight as it does in darkness as black as the void of space. It is also completely self-contained and much more user-friendly than R2, who had to endure a few glitches and repairs before he he was beep-booping again.

Here’s another thing the droid couldn’t do: PORTL can beam in both live and pre-recorded holograms in 4K resolution. R2 was just an answering machine.

“PORTL is the most versatile hologram device on the market,” PORTL CEO and inventor David Nussbaum told SYFY WIRE. “PORTL allows for multiple machines to be networked together so an entertainer can beam into 100 cities around the world simultaneously with the ability to hear, see, and interact with their global audiences.”

More:
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/portl-can-beam-a-hologram-of-you-to-someone-else

[Duppers]

1. "Way cool!" 😎

Thanks, Judi.

[hunter]

2. Sarah Pinsker -- A Song for a New Day

Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery—no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality...

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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598452/a-song-for-a-new-day-by-sarah-pinsker/9781984802583/

Pinsker wrote this book before covid-19

"I was kind of looking forward to getting the story out of my head, and now we’re living in it," Pinsker laments to Marie Claire with a weary laugh. Her pages detail eerily accurate isolation booths in restaurants, contactless delivery, virtual gatherings, and WFH bedroom-offices. Still, Pinsker doesn’t think of herself as a prophet. "Everything that’s in there is stuff that could logically happen," she says while sheltering-in-place in her hometown of Baltimore. "I just accept it as the risk of writing about the near-future: You can sometimes get lapped by the actual future."

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https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a32632422/sarah-pinsker-song-for-a-new-day-book-predicted-pandemic/

[Lars39]

3. I've long predicted that some religious nutjob will send a holographic

vision of jesus to his followers.