‘Hologram’ lecturers will soon beam to universities for the first time, starting with Imperial College London.
The UK-based business school is working with Toronto-based holographic media company, ARHT, to bring speakers from all over the world directly into their lecture halls using a projected hologram as a form of teleconferencing. ARHT describes it as “holographic telepresence.”
Instead of conferencing with a monitor or a computer screen, a life-size holographic is projected on to a large pan of glass, allowing a subjects entire form to take stage as if they were actually in the room.
To do this, the speaker