by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: July 22, 2009

Picture this: You've had a hard day at work, you just want to get home and relax. You arrive home, make yourself a coffee, then make your way to your living room. Once there you stare at your coffee table and wait for the game to begin that you programmed in earlier that day. Suddenly, with the lights dimmed, a scene appears before your eyes, above your coffee table, {say Resident Evil 2020.} Streets appear, long dark streets. You see bits of old newspaper being blown in the wind, you hear the sound of a feral cat in the distance, and there up ahead within the darkness you notice killer zombies heading your way, fast.

Short of actually being in the game itself you would have everything played out before your very eyes. There will be no screen acting like some sort of barrier between you and what is happening within the games world, [or if there is, the screen would be so thin that it would be barely noticeable.} No, everything will be played out in front of you in full colour and in every conceivable angle that you choose to view and play.

For this type of technology to happen, the technology would have to consist of erasable and rewritable holograms. Once this is achieved then products like holographic televisions would come to the fore. It would have to be a type of system that could retain memory, overwrite memory and display that memory again - like images, with subtle changes, being saved over and over, on a hard drive. Scientists, even now, have been trying to find a way to do this...now there seems to have been a breakthrough. Indeed, within the University of Arizona's Optical Science Department, in which the breakthrough occurred, they are still working on ways of making this technology more reliable, more stable.

Scientists have broken this barrier by managing to create up-datable, 3-Dimensional Images all containing memory. This is absolutely essential for any type of holograph that moves {moving holographs.} At the moment, scientists are at a very early stage of this process, and the technology, at present, is not suitable for 3-D images. But the barrier has been broken and soon holographic TV and Games Systems could be coming to a place near you...or even within your own home.

What would they look like?

Well, flat screen systems have been around for some time now, and holographic TVs and game systems could look like them. They could be like a screen built into a wall that shows 3-D Images. The lasers, of course, would be behind

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