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Re:Transparent OLEDs by Impossible on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:08AM (#24153244)
I've heard, and the art director on the game followed the same philosophy, that art directors tend to make future tech look worse\glitchy on purpose so it's very clear to the audience that it's "tech". Technology that for all intents and purposes works mostly flawlessly looks a little too much like magic to audiences I guess? Like really you'd just want to have a person show up and look like they were there, but that might not read clearly as a hologram to a 20th or early 21st century movie goer so they're monochrome blue, flickering and noisy with clear projector rays. I'd like to see a sci-fi game or movie where all of the tech mostly worked flawlessly except maybe in some exceptional situations.
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Re:Transparent OLEDs by ClikeX on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:41AM (#24155424)
I thought the Hologram technology in Blade Runner 2049 was pretty "flawless". The most interesting thing for that movie was that you see different levels of hologram technology.

The hologram that follows the main characters seems to be pretty high tech, and looks flawless. And they show the hologram stuff by having her move through objects.

But when the main characters walks around the city, you see hologram commercials that are the size of buildings. Those don't look lifelike. They're transparent and have limited colors.

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Re:Transparent OLEDs by grogenaut on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:25AM (#24153985)
isn't that like most episodes of STTNG? All the fuckups are becuse exceptional situations, usually involving tachyons.

Or many others did too. Earth Final Conflict for one, the hand tablets. Hell Tech works amazing in black mirror, one might argue WAY TOO WELL.

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Re:Transparent OLEDs by TeMPOraL on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:24AM (#24154392)
Right. Tech in Star Trek is part of the world, protagonists are living and breathing it, so it's shown as mostly working and not exceptional to people on-screen. Still, usually the viewer is told that something is a piece of tech through sounds and blinking lights.

As for Star Trek holograms, when the episode doesn't want to "play for surprise", it usually briefly shows the hologram appearing - which uses its very specific VFX, so that it's immediately recognized as a hologram (and not confused with teleportation, which uses a different style of VFX).

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