An image on the first holographic TV (R), although a little blurred compared to that of a digital TV on the left, can project three-dimensional objects. Gao Guibin
A SHENZHEN company has developed a TV that can display holographic images, regarded by experts as the first such television in the world.
Fan Cheng, president of AFC Technology Co. Ltd., said it took his research team two years to create the system, which differs in many ways from previous systems using hologram technology.
Fan said his system was able to display the original forms and colors of objects. Previous holographic display systems could only project black-and-white images.
Four academicians and several professors and experts with well-known Chinese academies and universities agreed that this invention was a breakthrough and the first generation of holographic TV.?
This invention could have uses in advertisement or in the military but needs to be improved before it can be used at home, experts said. They advised the government to pay attention to the invention and help it gain wider application.
“The most admirable thing about this system is that it can really display holographic images. Many people who have wanted to do that have failed,” said Jin Guopan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the dean of Qinghua University’s Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology.
“Created with theories and methods totally different from those of the old systems, this new system is a breakthrough that symbolizes the birth of real holographic TV,” Jin said.
Previous reports said the Japanese Government had been heavily financing the development of three-dimensional, virtual-reality television, and the country’s Communications Ministry aims to have such technology available by 2020.
(Liu Minxia)