Monday, September 6, 2010

Holographic Technology The Future of CAD?




Despite there not being a real demand or genuine advantage of utilizing holographic images, would it not be neat to be able to watch a soccer game on your living room table? And to be able to see what's going on from another perspective or view in the stadium by simply moving to another sofa in your living room?

After watching Jame's Cameron's Avatar in 3D, the true usefulness of the technology suddenly hit me.

Imagine how useful it would be when working on a CAD model in Pro Engineer Wildfire.
Once you have your assembly thrown together and you want to be able to twist and turn your design as if it were right in front of you.
Or what if you were starting off your design and had a general idea of how big your product was meant to be? With your hologram workstation you would be able to work at the true size of the object and not have to spend precious minutes dragging your drawing around the screen.

I truly believe Computer Aided Design  has a bright future ahead when it comes to Holographic technology and I would be one of the first people waiting in line to get my hands on it.

Philip Asante