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Screenshot from Jarem Archer’s video revealing his new hologram Cortana device, which he built over the course of four months. Source: Jarem Archer/YouTube
Many of us have already come to know the disembodied voices of personal assistants like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa, but now a software engineer has finally put a face to a name.
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Source: YouTube
Jarem Archer, who works as a consultant through his business, unt1tled, created a hologram device to match Microsoft’s Cortana personal assistant from Windows 10. She’s just like Cortana the Halo character, which Microsoft based its own on — she’s a slightly translucent, blue-light babe with a hip-waist-bust ratio that exposes her origins in the world of gaming. But Archer’s Cortana is 3-D and paces around inside a pyramid prism that rests on a table. In his demo video, he asks Cortana if he’ll need an umbrella, and she then pulls up a graphic with the temperature and assures him that it’s “probably not necessary.”
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Cortana in Halo 4 / Source: Halo 4/Giphy
“I’m just kind of seeing where this goes,” Archer, 33, said in a phone interview. He says he spent at least $1,000 to create the hologram after deciding to bring some sort of personal assistant to life. “It took me four months to build it. It was a project that, in between doing consulting, I would throw a little time into.”
How he built the hologram
Archer used a “Pepper’s ghost” illusion technique that dates back to the 19th century, which is frequently used in holograms today. It basically means an overhead projector beams an image onto a reflective floor surface, and that image then bounces off of an angled panel to create an illusion of a 3-D figure.
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Source: Mic