Holovect kick starter, real or bullshit? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: aaronhance
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2016, 01:34:19 am
content: I was browsing through kickstarter when I came across a project claiming to have made holographic displays in open air.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2029950924/holovect-holographic-vector-display/descriptionIt turns out the same guy has an indegogo campaign that has some red flags.https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tootz-the-unicorn-funny#/First red flag, his last name, it's just scrambled letters and numbers. Second, it's flexible funding, but hey it's only a farting unicorn made from plastic. Third flag, the delivery date lines up with the end of the funding time for holovect. For those wondering how I connected the dots for it to be the same person, since the last name is just crap, watch this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1412&v=KltmVZtnGy0Jamie is in the video and at the end he's advertising the farting unicon.Now back to kickstarter, if you view his profile you will see he failed his last holovect campign that asked for $350,000 and his newest campaign asks for $45,000, the same project just 1/7th of the funding required, what's different between them? If you stop there video at 1:20 you can see some fake reaction from Jamie's friend. He goes "oh wow", pretending the thing is turned on, but if you look at the screenshot it's obviously not turned on. This could just be nothing, but hey I want too look at everything.http://image.prntscr.com/image/f18e89b68ea74db3b2a1abf7aa92f2c1.pngMaybe it's legit, in fact I hope it is, it would be cool, but I'm not a physicist. I figure maybe people here would have more of an insight. Everything here could just be nothing, but the fake last name on indie gogo makes me suspicious.

author: edy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2016, 01:50:46 am
content: This would be a great thread in the Crowd-funding section of the forum. What I'd like to understand is how do they get it to be brighter at that one point along the path of the beam? And what is that surface below the object that looks like a square speaker of some kind? How does that help the laser get brighter at that one spot?[EDIT: Is it just focusing the laser on a single spot, and you need the fan to blow air there to cool the air? Notice in the video here at the VERY END when he puts his hand around the object, the image gets disrupted when the hand is over the "fan".... It looks as if it is actually using a curtain of dust/mist to generate the screen that the laser interacts with to give you the bright spot:http://www.craveonline.com/design/931297-holovect-real-holographic-projector-inspired-star-wars#/slide/1]

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2016, 01:52:53 am
content: if u have a dusty lab two mirrors hot glued on to DC motors, and a laser , can u reverse engineer this

author: aaronhance
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2016, 02:00:16 am
content: Quote from: jonovid on October 19, 2016, 01:52:53 amI have some laser diodes and a hair dryer at my disposal.