Worth noting - Humanity hasn't reverse engineered the Hard Light shield - they're just using the ones that detach from destroyed Forerunner constructs.

1:40 “What do you think I am? Crazy! You’ll just turn it off when I’m halfway across!”

When my older brother and I was playing Halo 1 for the first time, we were worried when we first came across the first Hardlight bridge. We turned it on, but we had no idea if it would just drop us to our deaths. So I had the genius idea of shooting the damn thing. Seeing that the bullets were hitting, I kept shooting a couple hundred more times, and only then did my brother jump on the bridge. 5 minutes of our lives gone because we had no idea of what the hell we were looking at.

Hardlight is an amazing concept, I would love to see the day that humans recreate it somehow

What I'm afraid of is that hard light is almost too versatile. It becomes almost like a deus ex machina, so hopefully, the developers don't overuse it, making it lose its alien impact.

cortana, manifesting herself into a physical form out of hardlight, was one of the coolest moments in halo history ever.

me: aha he is gonna explain how hardlight works, im intrested *actually explain that its possible* me: holy shit waw waw holy shit

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The cool thing is that they've already created triple bond photonic molecules through a rubidium gas cloud.

"Photons do not interact with each other" let me introduce you to wave interference

nobody: forerunners: hey are you a hoola hoop shaped super weapon because my light is getting hard

Need a collaboration with Installation 00! 😂

Holy crap, it all makes sense now. This video is actually fantastic. Also can someone help me out with all 3 pieces of arranged music he used? Been trying for weeks.

I was wondering in Halo Infinite, Master Chief’s armor would upgrade made of Forerunner body armor and hard light shielding system. That would be awesome!

Great video, thanks! What I really love is how something that I just thought of as being cool is suddenly given real purpose and shows the thought behind the design choices. I'd never even thought about the purpose of the hardlight bridges in Halo CE, really cool to suddenly understand its purpose. Thanks for another informative video :)

I've just discovered this channel, and have really enjoyed your videos into how the technology in Halo works; the technology is both really cool in how it is in the game and how you explain its realistic properties in how it would be applied in the same manner the games uses them for. I'd like to see more videos on you talking about stuff like this; even in other games that have fascinating uses of technology, if it is possible to scientifically explain and justify being pulled off. Also, the editing in these videos is beautifully done.

The Combine also utilize hardlight bridges inside their spire, as well as utilizing hardlight fields to block off passageways. They use the fields to allow only Combine forces to pass through so that control the humans is easier. It seems GLaDOS was able to utilize some Combine technology within Aperture as a testing element. The hardlight bridges GLaDOS used, however, were far more robust in that they required only an emitter in order to function, deriving their power directly from the reactor core that powered the entire facility.

Hardlight is likely used on the installation 00 as an omnipresent assembly tool for building the halo rings

I would like to see a game based on the torch example. Based around the player using a hardlight flashlight to go through obstacles.

I find it funny that in Destiny, which is made by bungie, there's a gun called hardlight

broke: Hardlight can be used to create incredible structures and weapons woke: Hardlight can be used to make my Anime Waifu real

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I've known about the concept for ages, and it's still epic.

Woah woah woah, you just blew my mind. I don't know why I never put any thought into it. Infinitely customizable tactile holographic controls would be siiiiiick!

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Wow, I'm impressed by you and the lore. I just figured it was all "Well video games!". All this "science" lore makes the world even better.

Yeah we have already made hard-light, it's just not at that level and I have no idea if they are affected by magnetic fields or not. Search up "photonic molecules" on wikipedia

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I think the customization of hard light devices would likely be related to the familiarity of device functionality. In example pistols or rifles when people got an idea how to get it to work, a medic might have a reconstructive tool or engineer would fix, tear down or build useful things. Of course limited by the energy available, control devices and maybe emiter size. Tho thinking of function it sounds similar to say the study of frequency. Different frequencies create different shapes. Not to mention scalar waves can trap particles between waves. Suspending water and sand like wise. But this seems more like infusing extra energy to temporarily alter the matter of an object. Like adding more electrons/protons to a space traped in a field to change the element or atom into another. Interesting ideas. Tho I dont see the item smartly making up for the lack of knowledge unless say there is a data crystal infused with the blueprints or memories of a forerunner from the past. Tho for game mechanics it would be fun to make different characters to level up andtheir abilities are saved say on a memory crystal that each new character can use. And thus give multiple gun type weapons to a medic, then enable an engineer to use the previous 2 skills in the next play threw. Could be a lot of fun.

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Yes I love exploring this type of stuff in Halo keep up the good work I love this vids thanks for being original and not falling into the pitfall of copying other channels

I'd like to see the hard light emitter built into the Mjölnir armor adapted to generate a hard light body for an attached AI as well. So if the Cortana chip is inserted into the Chief's armor, she could project herself physically into the real world when they aren't in combat.

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Another great video. Thank you again, Mr. Token. As a suggestion for a future video, maybe do one about Mjolnir armor? The number of variants, equipment uses, etc. has always been a great topic of conversation for me. Whatever topic you choose, your videos are always a pleasure to watch. You deserve more subs!!!

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Fun fact. We are currently experimenting with the concept of hardlight. Our limiting factor right now is power.

My goodness this man's videos are so good. I'm glued listening to your voice

Great video mate. 👍😁

Makes for some interesting Lightsaber theory. Star Trek's holodeck will make a lot more sense now too. Or heck even real world shield technology.

How do space battles work in halo? I mean I get that the fighting is extremely far away but is there any lore that goes into detail?

Slipspace and Hardlight has made me a subscriber.

7:15 indeed, a very very exciting use, I agree wholeheartedly

Wait, we can finally make individualized sections for videos now? I missed that update. Seems rather awesome.

Liked this one

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3:02 He can have my kind of deck, if you know what i'm saying ;)

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Oh my God, I think I finally understand how the Holodecks from Star Trek work

Well, this was a pleasant surprise.

And with this formula we can make light saber

This gives Halo Forge a whole new perspective !

I don't think there's too much of a discrepancy when it comes to the matter of the Covenant and hardlight. Key point is the phrasing of it- The Covenant can't, or haven't, *reverse* *engineered* the technology, but they still *utilize* it. Humanity is much the same when it comes to a lot of Forerunner artifacts; We don't know how to make it, but we know how to use it when we have it.

Sounds like similar concept as a lightsaber

I want the next story to be a love story between Chief and Cortana

This is why i love halo lore, its based on quantum physics. We have the ability to rise, i just hope we do before resources dwindle to far.

i immediately thought of Green Lantern powers on this

Between Hardlight weaponry of the Forerunners and Turbolaser cannons on Star Wars capital ships in the Expanded Universe said to be 200 gigatons per shot which weapon was more powerful, destructive, and fitting for galactic wide war?

Wow thank you , i did almost finally understood what happens at the end of Halo 4

we see so much forerunner and covenant tech i'd like to for once see ancient human technology.

So basically a more practical version of the holographic technology from ST.

I would like to see an enemy weakness being that if you can get to the source of the emitters, you can destroy it and cripple the enemy’s ability to deploy troops to that area. Of course they would defend it, so you would need a Spartan, or a TEAM of Spartans, or TWO teams of Spartans (Hello Osiris), or MORE than two teams of Spartans (Hello Red Team, Blue Team, Grey Team, Team Black, Spartan IVs, etc) to assault one of these emitters. Or maybe the emitters are just the means and there is a massive data core (like Cylon Resurrection Ships) that you can destroy.

I had no clue hardlight had basis in fact. That's the coolest shit I've ever seen.

Every time i see something like science fiction explained to me, it makes me think that everything in sci fi movies like Star Trek and sci fi games like Titanfall are actually possible.

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damn this blows my mind

Light already pushes objects. Tecnically it can already do all the things you mentioned but it can't be shaped. And the energy requirement is so big that the object would instantly melt. Also, when entangled photons leave the gas, they loose their propriety to interact with each other. Becouse they can't directly interact with each other, they can do so only by interacting with the gas first. Basically the gas is the bridge that permits photons to act like molecules, even if they are not. What i would do in a sci fi universe is have that gas in a particular location and then shoot and somehow control the hardness and mass of the gas with the photons. Essentially making gas + photon act like a solid structure.

youre on a grind lol

Really awesome video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Please make a video about Gray Team.

Make a Hardlight Holodeck to train the soilders. ... You could train against everything ^^

Make a proper lightsaber with that stuff!

7:26 Master Chief: ayye gurl 😎

I don't care what anyone else says... Hardlight armor and blades would be awesome, and now you're telling me a chance

Cortana using hardlight like that at the end of halo 4 was kind of jumping the shark for me. If there'd been a better lead up to it I might have accepted it, but when playing through the game casually it's a bit hard to swallow.

What a fucken nice video

Imagine if we had the forerunner technology 😞

7:30 Now people will wonder....what hard light would feel like, in THAT way. After all, a now physical Cortana would get people thinking.

Hardlight human melee weapons, like a sword or axe would be kind of dope

With hard light mad into any form. Is there a limit to how hard it can push or squeeze something? What keeps a limit on say a hand made from hard light from crushing anything just from pinching?

imagine makeing houses with it on new planets for new colonies,

WITHIN CELLLS INTERLINKED 2:49

As a last resort, it would be possible for the Created to engage in combat themselves. If they can use hardlight to manifest physical bodies that is. Depending on how many copies a smart AI can make of themselves, its even conceivable that they could create an infinite number of hardlight bodies capable of combat with all the precision and perks of a smart AI.

1:32 lightsabers

Hm, I didn't realize the technology could be rated as not just plausible, but possible. As a sci-fi writer, I'm always on the look out for things like this that help me build and design future technologies. Now I have one more piece of tech to add to the mix. Though I suspect power is a big limiting factor. Would a hardlight hologram use more or less energy than a Star Trek holodeck? For that matter, are there other systems that provide equal or even only a little less shielding for far less energy? If you need an entire fusion reactor just for your hardlight shields, may not be worth it when a different tech can be fed just fine on the same reactor that powers your weapons, even though it can only take 6-8 MAC rounds instead of the hardlight's 8-10. So while the tech may be viable, in the end, it may not be the best choice. The kind of mental gymnastics I love!

I would've liked to see that Jakel sniped 04:55

hard light sounds like photons that are vibrating at such a low rate, either from temperature or from other means, until it becomes "solid" enough likened to matter. It seems very possible. Like if you were to take a virtual particle and apply spin/vibration until it generated mass/density, thus making it "real"ish. Sorry I said this before watching your video. My bad

5:35 whats the soundtrack called again?

Those metal platforms are not hardlight tech at all. They are transported there and are actual metal.

I was using the Hard light in the crucible the other day.

It’s almost one step closer to a lightsaber too

Hardlight is just pure sun from portal 2

4th other potential point of failure for hard light, its functionally brittle, destroy one part destroy it all.

Magick

Android 17 stood on light at the tournament of power while fighting Kakuna .

You hold the reload button and it changes energy types

So, hard light could be a basis for lightsabers.