3-D TV? How about holographic TV? (via kinect)

Looking into Stephen Benton, the holographic video guru mentioned, I found the Mark II display mentioned in the article:<p><a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/spi/M2.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.media.mit.edu/spi/M2.html</a><p>Some numbers: <i>To acheive [sic] the goal of a 150x75x75mm image... Each horizontal line of the display is 256-thousand pixels of holographic fringe pattern translating to 36Mbytes of information per frame, fed at a total data rate of 2Gpixels/sec into the display from the frame buffers.</i>

It's a little bit confusing---I think the article's author is a non-technical writer rather than someone involved with the project---but it sounds like this is more about holographic <i>capture</i> rather than holographic <i>display</i>. (Which makes the kinect connection make a bit more sense.)

I love the fact that they are trying to make it cheap, it does not have to be perfect if it's cheap. Even if it looks as bad and is small as princes Lea's hologram, if it's cheap enough, I and every star wars fan will buy one.