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Forget Zoom – beam holograms into your home for a chat!
Looking for a new way to communicate, how about a phone booth-sized machine that beams live holograms into your living room? Read more…
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Friday Futures: Water on the moon, LightSail 2, future of medicine
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: lots of water on the moon, LightSail 2, the new space travel; the future of Read more…
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Beeline and Huawei do the 5G hologram call demo thing
VimpelCom – a.k.a. Beeline – and Huawei held a demonstration showcasing 5G technology at the Moscow Museum that included a hologram phone call via mixed reality glasses (MR). During the demonstration, the companies used frequencies Read more…
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Vodafone makes hologram call to promote 5G roadmap
NEWBURY, England (Reuters) – Vodafone said it would have 1,000 5G-enabled network sites in Britain by 2020, delivering blisteringly fast speeds and near-instant response times that it demonstrated by making Britain’s first holographic mobile call Read more…
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Genie Music plans 5G music platform (with holograms!)
KT Corp’s music streaming service, Genie Music, has announced plans to launch a new music platform that will leverage 5G to deliver visual music content, including holograms. Genie Music CEO Kim Hoon-bae said at a Read more…
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FIRA WIRE, DAY 0: GSMA warnings, holographic assistants and more
MWC18 news from Day 0: GSMA warns of megacity broadband doom; Nokia takes Facebook’s Terragraph global; Ericsson and China Mobile do Industry 4.0; HKT and Huawei make a DPTC; and SK Telecom’s Nugu assistant now Read more…
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NTT plans to one-up Pyeongchang in 2020 with live 3D holograms
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese telecommunications company NTT is hoping to bring an added dimension to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by projecting live sporting events with its 3D hologram technology. NTT has been working on a Read more…