[CTRL] Fwd: Big Brother Gets to Watch the Super Bowl on 3D-HDTV

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:02:41 -0800

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Gratuitous effort to capitalize on Super Bowl:
surveillance holograms
 
http://www.stephensonstrategies.com/
 
Here's our token, gratuitous Super Bowl story:
 
Holy Star Wars! -- DHS agents will watch 3-D holograms at Ford Field as part of their surveillance today.

The holograms, which help the authorities see images "more clearly," are generated using the LifeVision3D system (can't they goose up the box a little? looks very 20th century to me) from Intrepid Defense & Security Systems.

It will be used to look at faces of attendees, search sidewalks, and look under vehicles.

CEO James Fischbach told CNET that his holograms are similar to the ones Princess Leia looked at in the first Star Wars movie: they use streams from two cameras (the left and right "eyes"), and project 3-D images on a 20' monitor that has a depth tube.  Resulting images appear to rise 30" from the screen & sink another 30" into the screen.  It doesn't require special goggles, and accurately displays real-world volumes and distances.

This is another win-win application that has uses far beyond homeland security: "'For the military, it can offer much better facial recognition,' Fischbach said. 'Instead of looking at a two-dimensional photo, you're looking at an entire head.'" Other uses include helping surgeons look into patients more accurately, and training NASCAR drivers. Fishbach also is exploring entertainment uses.

I assume that one of the other benefits is helping those monitoring surveillance cameras to avoid the hypnotic-like state that comes from watching bank upon bank of similar looking images.

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 Homeland Security will deploy
new "Star Wars-like" hologram technology
to safeguard the Super Bowl on Sunday

 
As agents for Homeland Security monitor the dozens of security cameras mounted in Detroit's Ford Field, they'll see the images in three dimensions, according to James Fischbach, CEO of Intrepid Defense & Security Systems, the company that developed the LifeVision3D system.

Holograms help authorities see images more clearly, Fischbach said.

LifeVision will be used to search sidewalks, monitor faces in the enormous Super Bowl crowd and peer under vehicles.

Holograms are favorites of science-fiction filmmakers. Perhaps the best known is the hologram of Princess Leia that the android R2-D2 projected in the film "Star Wars." Today, simple holograms are internal, and are used on credit cards and children's stickers, in numerous industrial applications and sometimes even in

LifeVision uses streams from two cameras, which act as the left and right eyes, to project 3D images onto a 20-inch screen. The monitors used are equipped with a depth tube that presents images that appear to rise 30 inches from the screen and sink another 30 inches into the screen, Fischbach said. Real-world volumes and distances are displayed accurately.

No special goggles or glasses are needed.

"For the military, it can offer much better facial recognition," Fischbach said. "Instead of looking at a two-dimensional photo, you're looking at an entire head."

Fischbach says LifeVision can help surgeons peer into the human body with much more accuracy. He's helped hone the talents of Nascar drivers by creating racing simulations and is in talks with an entertainment company to present a hologram of a rock concert inside a department store.

So how long before the public can send holograms like the one sent by Princess Leia?

"If George Lucas had four cameras on her when he shot it, I could take them and present a real-world image of her right now," Fischbach said.


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