I just heard that a new form of Holographic ability has just arrived in our technology. Yes we can now TOUCH HOLOGRAMS!!! Amazing huh? So will we now be able to one day buy our own Holographic Dancers that we can actually touch and get a response from? Can this be for real? It's like a dream come true right out of Science Fiction!!! But from what I read at the website called Gizmag it is possible now for this to happen. NOW, how many of you would want your own cute and now very LOVABLE ***** sitting right on your lap???? But the main question is if and when will we see this happen?

This is so exciting. . . and only 4 days past April Fools Day!

I would love to believe this is for real, but I'm not convinced. For a few extra bucks, can I get it enlarged to life size? I wonder what my favorite model's holographic vagina will feel like. Can they make it feel wet? How about its holo-taste and holo-smell?

We're talking about Star Trek Holodeck technology, and in my humble opinion, that's still hundreds of years in the future.

It'll feel a lot like touching light... hot, eye meltingly expensive, and still firmly in the sci-fi realm.

Holograms have been around since the seventies. Its not like its new technology. The ability to make it feel solid has been around for a while too.

We have the technology for all sorts of, so called, impossible things. Really, the only limiter is the amount of energy required to do something. Heck, I could build something very similar to a lightsaber. But I'd need a semi-truck to carry around most of the equipment.

I'd have to look into it, but I doubt its reached any practical level. But, then again, wouldn't surprise me.

"The ability to make it feel solid has been around for a while too." No, I'm afraid you got that part wrong. Sorry.

Microsoft released 3D motion holograms back in 2011.
In 2012, they claimed to have a "Touchable Hologram"
Their so called "Touchable Hologram" was really, "Interactive" Not Touchable.
There was no sense of feel involved, only hand and motion tracking so that if you reached for the object, the object would respond.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7k-6FUxoo

This however is ultrasonic technology that provides a sense of touch along with the motion tracking.
Released in 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3seTlvQtIgc

I think we have a bit of *****. Looked up the word, I think I was using the word wrong, and I apologize. We have the knowledge and ability, and we have had that since the late nineties, if memory serves me well. But it has never been done on a practical level.

But it wouldn't surprise me if we had developed it on a more practical level.

And I do remember the interactive hologram you mentioned. Though it was in the late nineties that I last, really, looked into holograms.

I can think of several ways to do it, off the top of my head, though none of them are particularly practical. But then again. I am a student of human thought and not physics. And I haven't really followed science & physics since the late nineties. And a lot has changed since then.

Why bother with holograms, we have replicators now. And with a decent computer you could build a biot. Why an illusion when you could have the real thing? Not sure if it would be legal though. But I don't know why it wouldn't be.

@lameman,
not sure what you are referencing too, but this has not been around since the 90's
Sure Solid Holograms have been around a LONG time..

But this thread is about the type that are created in free space,
that you can reach out and interact with, and now even have a form of hepatic feedback.
A sense of feel.

Its been a long day, but I will try to be patient.

Breakdown:

1. Chiefton52 creates this really neat little splat. I was a ***** the last time I really paid any attention to holograms, but they are interesting none the less.

2. This is followed by two posts suggesting that touchable holograms are an April fools joke.

3. There is a difference between having the ability, and having a working model. While I haven't paid much attention to holograms recently. I started hearing about the idea of solid holograms towards the late 90's. Along with those ideas where the proposals for how one might go about doing it. Most, if not all, of which are still plausible ideas.

4. So I said that while I am not familiar with modern technology relating to holograms. The idea is plausible, and given fifteen years, the idea is even likely. Suggesting that there was some merit to the original post.

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My post said nothing of the sort... what the mind can conceive the body will achieve. It's just that there's a better way of getting there without third degree *****.;)

Yes, lasers can be used to stimulate the sense of touch. As can electricity. And you are absolutely right about the *****. Electricity being the safer of the two.

If you didn't want *****, you could try electro-magnetism or sonic wall technology. Both are still in their early development stages, though working models do exist. But both are expensive to operate. Sonic wall tech. would be the cheaper of the two.

The easiest way to create the illusion of touch would simply be to put someone in a suit, and have the suit create the illusion.

Who needs touchable holographic girls? They could never compare to the real thing. There's a simple reason for that, it's called continuation of the species.

@gonzo420, Absolutely agree! Forget about lasers and illusions, lets get back to the real world, where the real Girls are waiting... very hot and touchable!

Hey check it out for yourselves if you don't believe me. I was just as thrilled as all of you skeptics were too at first. Why do you think I posted it here huh? So to get this company started into looking into this and get it to us that much faster. We all know we want it or you wouldn't have commented here. Plus this gives VirtuaGirl an idea of how much of a response they will get from the product. Anyhow here is the link to the information, enjoy and keep dreaming of that coming day.
Holograms you can feel - Gizmag
Aug 10, 2009 ... By blending a holographic display, a couple of Nintendo Wiimotes and an ... The researchers from the University of Tokyo believe touchable ...
www.gizmag.com/tactile-holographic-display/12466/