In science fiction movies, a repeating trope is the virtual window. You’ve probably seen this: In some distant future, people living in a tiny apartment have a magnificent view, which turns out to be completely artificial.<\/p>\n
Essentially, their window is a hologram, which creates the illusion that the apartment’s inhabitants are surrounded by nature. When in fact they are probably living five levels underground in an overcrowded future megalopolis.<\/p>\n
I have long wondered when the technology will exist to implement such a window for real. A simple engineering analysis, which I conduct every few years, tells me that we are still far from being to make that virtual window a reality.<\/p>\n
But such a thing is indeed theoretically possible, given the right future breakthroughs in micro-optics. I wonder if or when we will ever get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In science fiction movies, a repeating trope is the virtual window. You’ve probably seen this: In some distant future, people living in a tiny apartment have a magnificent view, which turns out to be completely artificial. Essentially, their window is a hologram, which creates the illusion that the apartment’s inhabitants are surrounded by nature. When … Continue reading “Virtual window”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28868,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28867\/revisions\/28868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}