Very soon, online bingo could change in a very cool way.
Can you imagine playing online bingo but not in front of your computer? Even more, can you imagine a time where the computer, as we know it, would be an unnecessary accessory?
Well, close your eyes and imagine this scene:
You are entering a beautifully illuminated room with indirect lights, so they won’t hurt your eyes, but you can see the numbers on your bingo cards. You look around and don't find irritating screens that dazzle you, or annoying blinking pointers that distract you, or a mouse that runs out of batteries just when you need it most.
You stop for a moment in the entrance of the hall and an usher takes you to a place where you can relax, without neighbors pushing you with their elbows, spilling drinks on your suit or importuning with the scent of their perfume. Isn’t it nice? But still more: you don’t have to drive your car, on a perhaps rainy, foggy, or cold night, or take a taxi or a bus and return home late at night - exposing yourself to an assault or a bad cold.
And let’s continue: You sit down, then ask for your bingo cards and start to play. Soft music in the background is pleasing, quiet enough to be able to speak with your bingo mates. And your bingo mates are from all over the world, yet you can talk to and see them physically, in 3-dimension, as if the place was a normal bingo room a block away from your house, when in fact, it is thousands of miles away and spreads across cyberspace as a second atmosphere.
Hologram Bingo: all of this is not far from becoming real!
With the latest technologies in virtual reality and high definition graphics, the advances in wireless data transmission (Bluetooth and others), the constant development of smaller and more powerful computers and the astonishing advance of the holography, all this could transform this fiction into a fact in a near future.
But, what is a hologram?
Holography is an outpost picture technique that creates images in three dimensions. To achieve this, a laser ray microscopically records a photosensitive film. This film, when receiving light from an appropriate perspective or angle, then projects the three-dimensional image known as a hologram.
Holography was invented in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, a Hungarian physicist. For this great invention, Gabor received the Nobel Prize of Physics in 1971. However, several years passed before this technique was perfected with a more potent source of concentrated light known as a laser, more powerful than the weak light sources used in earlier times.
In fact, for several years holograms have been used in DVD players and many other applications. They’re also used in credit cards, bills and CDs, as well as a symbol of authenticity and security.
When we look towards the future, fascinating events can be foreseen. You could say that the applications of this technology are as varied as the human imagination.
So long, and we’ll see you in the future – at the virtual bingo hall!
But wait - there is something else. Now, it wouldn't be so nice if the all prizes and jackpots we won from these futuristic virtual bingos were pure holograms. In this matter, it would of course be better if prizes continued to be real, solid prizes, as solid as meat. A lot of meat and vegetables, as tasty as a good stew! Sounds like a tasty prize to me!
