The phone-booth sized device lets users talk in real time with a hologram of another person; insight from Kurt 'The CyberGuy' Knutsson.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Jedediah, there is a whole new
way of doing virtual meetings at
home, Hologram Machines,
a LOS Angeles company, is
offering the new tech that can
beam another person right into
your living room.
Griff Kurt. The Cyberguy is here
to tell us all about it.
Kurt Jessica Yellen tried to do
this for CNN in two thousand and eight and it
failed,
but you now can do it in twenty twenty
PETE cone gratlations.
If only we could have
transported you by hologram into
the river
PETE. I would have preferred
that
your muscles wouldnt be sore
this morning.
All you need now and the rest of
America to figure out where in
your living room, would you put
the thing seven feet tall five
feet wide and about two feet:
deep?
That is a giant hologram machine
called Portal, this guy, the same
guy that worked on the project
for Ronald Reagan, library that
brought to us the Ronald Reagan
Hologram to help newer
generations get accustomed to
who that president was are the
same people that are behind
this.
This is coming to market at
sixty thousand dollars.
You will be able to transport
instead after zoom call you
make that yesterday
you can transport a 3d hologram
live of yourself to any location
in the world. If you have this
box on the other end,
all you need to send the image
a white background and a camera
youre in business
PETE and Sixty Grand
yeah
sixty grand
thats, all
PETE, so the idea youre more
appealing digitally than
otherwise on a zoom call.
I like the technology.
I would prefer to have a call
with my mom PETE than I would
where I could actually see her.
She on the other side of the
country
because of the pandemic. I dont
travel to her.
I dont get to see her
but to have that family
connection,
think of military families
abroad being able to Rao
reunite that way.
Maybe this makes sense to have
this set up in that sort of
setting where a bunch of people
are able to share a
60000 dollar piece of
technology. Like this,
I think it is profound
for the rest of us that dont
really have I mean if youre
going to spend sixty grand. This is
not at the top of my list, but if
you made it a little bit smaller
and less expensive, I would be
into it
that is it what is coming next
year, according to the company
portl
think of this PETE well, show
it to you online, at cyber
guy dot com,
you can for an upgrade for twenty five
grand. They will take all of
what PETE said his whole life
and make it available to future.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-09.