By simply holding the card under a standard webcam, the player magically pops up from the card onscreen and springs to life. Players can then be rotated around, and fans can control the action with just a keystroke or two as it unfolds on the desktop.

This sounds eerily similar to the ridiculous CueCat which was built on the premise that people would gladly read their newspapers and magazines while seated at their Year 2000 dial-up modem computers and scan barcodes on the pages with a proprietary scanner in order to be taken to advertising websites because manually typing in URL's was far too difficult.

You know what blew my mind? F*ck face. As a kid, that was truly mind-bending.

Meh. It's been done.

Awesome, Mungo. I remember those cards well.

Are holograms having a bit of a pop-culture comeback? A few years ago everything was fixing to go holographic in another couple of shakes of Moore's Law and you wouldn't be able to tell the girl next door from some dame built out of lasers. Then they seemed pretty lame, which is to say very lame, reduced to shoring up Star Trek plots when the writers had run out of ideas.

That looked nothing like Lincecum's motion. It was too jerky. Virtual Lincecum is going to get a shoulder injury soon.

That looked nothing like Lincecum's motion. It was too jerky. Virtual Lincecum is going to get a shoulder injury soon.

He also should wear a towel.

I like the throwback hologram Iron Man uniforms.

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do they really like pop up infront of u on ur dest cuz my? bro has some he just cant get them 2 work lol
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i enjoy going to baseball games quite a bit. i eat a lot of hotdogs and drink plenty of beers. the thing is, the combination of those two things really makes me? gassy. it's not all bad though. there's just something about leaning forward and farting into that crack in the seat down there. when i hear the people behind me ask one another, "what the hell is that smell?" I find it deeply satisfying.
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WOW?
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Dont wanna start no flamewar, but? did you ACTUALLY think little 3d-men would appear on your desk?

Having now watched the video, I could really get behind the idea of replacing strikes and balls with "bullseyes" and "misses". I can just hear Vin Scully intoning, "The count on Martin is full at three misses and two bullseyes. And the runners go in motion as Lincecum winds and delivers the payoff pitch ...."

To me it doesn't sound eerily similar to the CueCat...it sounds similarly stupid though.

That's great. Can they make my Mattingly rookie worth more than five bucks?

WTF is up with all the 3D? I thought people correctly concluded that the concept was stupid in 1986.

This thread had me checking if Second Life was still around. Yup, evidently so. Anyone have an online reliquary of old Internet ideas like "CueCat"? I haven't found a decent museum for that sort of thing yet, and I'm already forgetting about things like Geocities, the Newton and such.

One of my favorite podcasts (The Naked Scientists) is broadcast live into Second Life -- apparently you can go to the Second Life Mansion, hang out, and take in the show.
Some kind of nerd nirvana, that must be.