Students at Lappborough University from the county of Leicester in central Great Britain will, starting next academic year, benefit from lectures delivered by guest lecturers from abroad - without these lecturers having to fly to the university, and without staring at them on small laptop screens. We helped Claude to explain how this will happen.
The university has already begun testing a system that allows the presentation of holograms of guest lecturers, and in 2025 it plans to officially launch it and integrate these lectures into the curriculum.
The system, which was built by the Proto company from Los Angeles and has already been presented in several places around the world, including the CES technology exhibition held in Las Vegas earlier this month, looks like a photo booth in a shopping mall - except that instead of going inside, one of the walls is covered with a huge 3D screen, which makes it possible to present a person standing in a photo studio created especially for this purpose in natural size and in a completely realistic quality.
The studio can be set up in any room where a white screen can be inserted in the background and a high-quality camera connected to the company's broadcast system - and the person in the studio can see the viewers in his hologram live thanks to a camera that is installed above the holographic screen and transmits back to a laptop located in front of him.
Prof. Vicky Luke, head of undergraduate studies at the university, reported to the Guardian newspaper that the students are "simply in love" with the idea and are begging for selfies that include one or two people appearing inside the virtual cell and a few others standing around it.
In contrast to the "distance" of a Zoom call, the holograms encourage students to truly engage with the lecturers appearing in front of them.
The pioneering move will reduce the need for flights to bring in visiting experts from abroad - an agenda that the university is vigorously promoting as part of the effort to encourage sustainability and protect the environment.
Proto's clients include British Telecom, IBM and the H&M branch in Stockholm.
The founder, David Nussbaum, believes that his systems, which are planned to be sold in different sizes - from a toy for children with educational holographic animals, through a kind of desktop device for extremely high quality video calls to the pavilions more than 2 meters high that present life-sized humans - can also enable multiplier lectures Virtual ones of the great thinkers, from Einstein to Hawking, which will be created by artificial intelligence.
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