Holoportation new age social media
dubai — Forget Facebook, Skype and Snapchat, a professor in Dubai believes ‘HoloPortation’ will be the new social media craze in less than a decade.
The honorary professor at Amity University and founder of Dubai Solar Schools, David Provenzani, said humans will be able to teleport anywhere through holographic figures of themselves. The virtual meetings can be recorded, which means users can send or ‘post’ their interactions to other humans and play it back as ‘memories’.
Microsoft has already invented a programme as such, where a staff member got to see interact with his
I would suppose this would be the new social network... within five to seven years, we will HoloPort ourselves to interact with family and friends.” David Provenzani, founder, Dubai Solar Schools
daughter through HoloPortation. He recorded their entire interaction and played it back.
“This will help in communicating with people that are physically distant to us. HoloPortation is a sample from Microsoft and I think, within five to seven years, we will have technology that we can apply to our house and HoloPort ourselves in another room, to have a meeting, talk or to interact with family and friends,” Provenzani told Khaleej Times on the sidelines of the ‘A Journey to the World of 2040’ conference by Amity University.
“I would suppose this would be the new social network. So, now we use Facebook, but in the future, we will post our HoloPortation sessions because you can record them and play them back as memories.”
Because the Holographs are 3-D images, the Microsoft employee was also able to zoom-in and out of the holographs, making him and his daughter appear much smaller and easier to view. However, users can also keep the holographs to human-size. Provenzani gave a presentation to high school students at the event, where he spoke about how life would be like in 2025 and beyond. He said the youth have to focus on career paths that require human emotions.
“All of the works that require manual efforts, would be replaced by machines. Our suggestion today is to direct the careers towards fields that still require emotion, ethics and typical characteristics of human beings,” he said, adding that robots can have emotions in the next two decades. “The students of today have to consider what will be the change within the next 10 and 20 years. Of course, we will have many disruptive changes in many fields that are part of our personal, working and even educational space.”
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