[From Wired, which features a 1:40 minute video] Holographic Telecommuting May Soon Be Possible By Lisa Grossman November 3, 2010 A new holographic display can transmit three-dimensional movies from one location to another almost in real time. If Princess Leia had to send her “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” message from Earth today, it would now be technologically possible. “We can take objects from one location and show them in another location in 3-D in near real time,” said optical scientist Nasser Peyghambarian, and project leader from the University of Arizona in a press conference Nov.…

[From New Scientist, where a 0:33 minute video is available; the Stoll et al article is available here] Game characters to get authentically rumpled clothes 17:30 24 October 2010 by Shanta Barley Computer game developers use sophisticated algorithms to inject real physics into virtual worlds – painstakingly mimicking the way that light reflects off objects, for instance. But there’s something unrealistic about the citizens of those virtual worlds: their clothes barely register a crease or crumple, no matter how much running and jumping they perform. That could soon change, thanks to software which ensures that a game character’s clothes ripple…

[A press release from Mechdyne via HPCwire (High Productivity Computing); a description of the episode from the Sci Fi Science web site follows below]   November 01, 2010 Mechdyne CAVE To Be Featured on Discovery Science Channel MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, Nov. 1 — The CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment integrated by Mechdyne Corporation in March 2009, at Rowan University in Camden, NJ, will be featured in and episode of Sci Fi Science–Physics of the Impossible airing on the Discovery Science Channel beginning November 3, 2010, at 9 p.m. (CDT.) Dr. Michio Kaku serves as host of the program and was on site…

[From PhysOrg, which features a 1:15 minute video (many other videos are available at the popcode web site)] New mobile phone app ‘Popcode’ adds virtual reality to real world objects (w/ Video) October 20, 2010 Have you ever struggled to follow a set of assembly instructions for flat-pack furniture? Simon Taylor, a PhD student in Dr Tom Drummond’s group, and Connell Gauld, a graduate of the MEng course in 2010, have been working on a framework for adding virtual content to real world objects. They can bring written instructions to life using a technique called Augmented Reality (AR). Augmented Reality has…

[A press release from 3-D Vision; see the 1 minute promotional video here]  World’s First 3-D Broadcast Nationwide for All TVs in Full Color Rachael Ray ground breaking episode “Halloween Bash in 3-D” to be broadcast on Oct 29   New York – October 25, 2010 The Rachael Ray Show, along with 3-D Vision, Inc., (both based in New York), are taking a major step forward in the exploding 3-D TV market. On October 29, “Rach’s Halloween Bash in 3-D” will be broadcast to millions of viewers with 3-D Vision’s revolutionary new 3-D process called “FullColor 3D™”. The Rachael Ray…

[From The New York Times Editorial Notebook Is That a Dagger I See? By EDUARDO PORTER Published: October 22, 2010 We’ve been waiting a long time for technology to deliver us an alternative reality, like the future in H.G. Wells’s “Time Machine,” Neo’s Matrix, or the universe of code navigated by the “Neuromancer” hacker, Case. The future has arrived, finally — by the prosaic hand of our cellphones. Chances are it will soon be sponsored by laundry detergent or a fast-food chain. Just the other day, my iPhone showed me an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that most…