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PORTL, a Los Angeles-based holographics company, is at the cutting edge of virtual technology with the first-ever device that lets people teleport a hologram of themselves to any location around the world and interact with people there in real-time.
While PORTL was only conceived in 2019, its founder and CEO David Nussbaum has been bringing holograms in front of live audiences for over a decade. The entertainment and tech entrepreneur was behind achievements like Jimmy Kimmel’s appearance via hologram at the 2014 CMA Awards and the posthumous performances of digitally resurrected of Latin music stars Juan Gabriel and Jenni Rivera.
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As someone who both grew up during the 1980s and fell in love with watches back then, I was excited to see the 80s Week theme appear on HODINKEE. It reminded me of an email I received from Hodinkee Founder Ben Clymer back in 2019, where he asked some friends for our thoughts on watches we believed should be worth more than they are. As I thought through my answer, several pieces introduced in the 1980s came to mind, and a theme surrounding this decade I m nostalgic for emerged.
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Watches and Wonders saw a glimpse of the future when IWC CEO Christoph Grainger-Herr and the brand’s legendary watchmaker Kurt Klaus beamed into the Shanghai event from Switzerland as 4K holograms.
The presentation saw Grainger-Herr and Klaus introduce IWC’s 2021 collection and answer questions from buyers in real-time, it also marks the first time the PORTL technology has been used to ‘holoport’ from Europe to Asia. Inventor David Nussbaum demonstrates the device in the video below.
For the remainder of the four-day live event, which came to a close yesterday, guests used the technology to interact with watchmakers at the brand’s HQ in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
When IWC gave
GQ a sneak peek of the new watches being launched at this year s virtual Watches & Wonders show, it did so, well, virtually.
The company s CEO Christoph Grainger-Herr Zoomed us from a corner of the brand s Schaffhausen HQ that was deftly styled to project a monochrome, industrial vibe, finishing the presentation by pulling the wraps off the two Pilotâs Watch Top Gun Edition âMojave Desertâ pieces you see here.
It was calm, relaxed and perfectly peaceful. Or, put another way, the total antithesis of the zooming a few of us experienced at the (very literal) launch of the first Top Gun models way back in 2006.