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This Thursday, he presents to us what will perhaps revolutionize our videoconferencing meetings.
No more 2D vignettes, thanks to a box the size of a cabinet, it will be possible to speak to a hologram.
Your innovation of the day may be the future of videoconferencing. Today, we talk a lot about "zoomfatigue" or "zoomophobia" by dint of seeing your colleagues in 2D thumbnails. Tomorrow, we might do our videoconferences with holograms.
It will be the turnkey version, completely packaged, of the famous meetings of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Imagine a big box the size of a cupboard with a glass front.
Someone wants to talk to you, they appear, in full size, as if they are really in front of you inside the box.
We posted a video for you on the hashtag # Europe1.
It's impressive.
We can follow each other with our eyes.
It will be less taxing than Teams, Zoom, Meet and others.
How it works ?
It is really a hologram, therefore a projection in the air thanks to an optical illusion.
Until now, it was reserved for huge installations, extremely complex, worthy of the special effects of cinema.
So much so that the prices could exceed 100,000 €.
But with advances in artificial intelligence and computing power, we can now do the same thing in a cabinet on casters, which only has to be plugged in.
As a result, prices now start at € 2,000.
2,000 €, it's still expensive anyway.
That is true.
And again, 2,000 € is for a small cabinet.
If we want one of real size, we go up to 40 or even 50,000 € at startups like Portl or ARHT.
This is why we find them today especially in events to involve big bosses, lecturers or artists from a distance.
But the prices are expected to fall further.
It will perhaps be the telephone booth of the future, where we exchange by interposed hologram, as if we were really talking face to face.