The rapid developments in Information Communication Technology (ICT) have made tremendous changes in the many fields of life. Educational institutions along with businesses in the corporate world have been quick to take advantage of technological services via integrating ICT into education and training, which in turn has produced new models of education such as e-learning, distance learning and blended learning. These models have changed the face of learning as well as playing an essential role in the increase of the learner population and also providing a good opportunity to learn at any time and/or place.
Recently, technological developments are playing an important role in improving the educational process. For example, we see many educational institutions using sophisticated technological tools such as touch screens, new software and others. Scientists are working very hard to provide an advanced technology, which can benefit them in many areas. 3D Hologram Technology (3DHT) is one of the most creative of these solutions.
Holograms have broken out of the world of science fiction and fantasy and are about to become common currency between London and New York, Sydney and Mumbai, Shanghai and Moscow. Live and life-size 3D TelePresence holograms can now interact with their remote audiences whether they are a band performing on stage, a politician delivering a keynote speech, or a CEO holding an interactive meeting with colleagues around the world.
Musion Systems Limited is a company which is based in the UK and is the exclusive master global licensor for the Eyeliner holographic projection system. Musion’s Eyeliner technology has developed life-size holographic figures with full motion and with no latency between sound and image. Using a high-speed (20mbites/sec) MPLS Internet connection it is, quite simply, transforming the future of communication. So, if you want to make a major speech, you can stride the stage, not just sit at a desk. If you want to use 3D motion video images, they appear seamlessly beside you, not on a separate monitor. You can communicate in real time – no time lapses – with both on-stage colleagues and audiences. Eyeliner is a system that is fully bi-directional and interactive; you can see them just as clearly as they can see you. Just about the only thing you can’t do is shake their hands, or at least, only virtually.
All of this is possible only with Musion Eyeliner foil technology. But its uses go far beyond the boardroom or the political stage. Entertainment, education, design and engineering collaboration, product launches the list goes on.
The importance of 3D Hologram Technology on education
In this area we can take advantage of 3D Hologram Technology (3DHT) in different forms. For example, holograms now allow students to be taught by a virtual teacher who could be many kilometers away. The process goes a step beyond video conferencing in that the hologram teacher appears to be in the classroom, and can see and speak to the pupils as if they were all in the same room. The system used by Edex, the largest supplier of Internet connections to the UK education market, at the BETT2000 educational technology show in London. Moreover, 3DHT can enhance the educational process by bringing famous characters to life again from the past, and they speak about themselves and/or explain something as an assistant teacher. For instance, there have certainly been many worthy philosophers and learned men in world history perhaps none more celebrated that the Greek Philosopher Plato. Unfortunately we are unable to talk with Plato as he is from a past period, while we are in the present period moving into the future period by hologram. In Seoul’s Alive Gallery Project, holograms and 3-D animation technology bring 62 world-renowned masterpieces of Western art to life again. In this project we can see the Mona Lisa answering questions from students, such as “Why don’t you have any eyebrows?” she is answering, “When I was alive, a woman who had big forehead was considered a beauty, so most women had their eyebrows taken off for beauty. Or, Michelangelo explains the fresco technique he is using to paint ‘The Last Judgment’. He explains the work of another masterpiece he had completed earlier on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A pop-up screen shows a close-up of the famous ‘Creation of Adam’.
Janine Croft, Managing Director of XpertLearning, the leading e-Learning solutions provider in the Middle East, visited Musion Systems Limited studios during a visit in London. She was left spellbound by the technology. “Teachers replaced by holograms. It sounds like something from a science fiction movie or T.V. show. How awesome is that if holographic teachers or trainers could be sent to you, without you having to move or travel?”, said Janine.
She further added, “We, at XpertLearning, actively support the introduction of new learning technologies. As an organization that is seen to be one of the visionaries for the future of learning and technology within the Middle East region, we see the hologram as being a key technology/feature moving forward for the future. It will change the way people communicate/interact with each other.”
For more information about the Musion Eyeliner System, please visit http://www.musion.co.uk/.
