Imagine: A Ronald Reagan hologram in his Presidential Library!A Three-Dimensional Doppleganger, a very strange word indeed, is new to most people. The word doppelganger is German and literally means double walker — as in a ghost or shadow of yourself. It's someone who looks spookily like you, but isn't a twin, is a doppelganger. Famous personalities in the past were known to use doppelgangers to thwart off personal physical attacks or assassination attempts. In some realtime circumstances it made perfect sense to people like Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein, but what does it mean to you?
Invented in 1584, an Italian scientist named Giambattista della Porta, inventor of the camera obscura, first described creating a 3-D Oculus Rift-like effect in a paper titled "How we may see in a chamber things that are not."
By 1997, a German inventor, Uwe Maass created a 3-D experience like that in the first old Sci-Fi movies with those clunky, special 3-D glasses; but his new technology offered images without those glasses or limiting the image projection only onto a movie screen. Uwe Masse offered a holographic effect projecting a 3-D image onto thin, clear plastic film to create a virtual 3-D doppelganger experience.
In September 2014, Jullian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has spent three years in asylum while still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, appeared in front of nearly 1,000 people in Nantucket, MA answering questions from the crowd and even attempted a hologram-to-human high five at the end.
In November 2014, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted his show simultaneously in Los Angeles, CA and at the Country Music Awards in Nashville, TN appearing by hologram. It was an instant hit. The Jimmy Kimmel Show is building an installation now so the host can beam people in for interviews at any time.
The exciting probabilities are even more exponentially explosive when considering electioneering possibilities.
In 2014, Narenda Modi enters the race for prime minister of India with polling numbers of 34 percent, not good. But then, he delivers speeches to hundreds of rallies by hologram as he spoke at over 1,400 locations, reaching 14 million additional voters. He then started generating enormous crowds, 30,000 to 40,000 and wins the election garnering a rare plurality with 53% of the vote.
In 2014, Uwe Maass reported that a team from Hillary Clinton's campaign visited
Hillary's Holographic Image Redo with his Beverly Hills, CA production studio and seemed intrigued. He was enthusiastic that Hillary is going to go for it too. If Hillary does it and wins, then it's going to be easy to have it seen as a major electioneering campaign tool.
This new 3-D Doppleganger technology is available to all and it appears it will certainly add to the social media mix as a king-maker to the political candidate hopefuls. It is certainly a cutting edge political media tool in the making.