EXCLUSIVE: Beam us up Scully! Inventor has perfect solution to save next presidential debate - a futuristic hologram 'phone booth' that can beam Donald Trump and Joe Biden on to debate stage with moderator Steve Scully

An inventor has come up with the perfect solution to save the upcoming presidential debate - a futuristic hologram 'phone booth' that can beam Donald Trump and Joe Biden on to the debate stage.

With President Trump testing positive for coronavirus, the bipartisan commission that hosts the debates announced Thursday it would be shifting the format to virtual.

The news prompted Trump to immediately announce he was pulling out – as he claims to have been 'cured' of coronavirus.

'That's not accessible to us. I beat him easily in the first debate,' Trump lamented in an interview with Fox Business Network Thursday morning.

'No, I'm not gonna waste my time in a virtual debate,' the president told anchor Maria Bartiromo.

'That's not what debating is all about,' he said. 'You sit behind a computer and do a debate – it's ridiculous and then they cut you off whenever they want.'

But tech entrepreneur David Nussbaum, 46, thinks his revolutionary Epic PORTL hologram projection machine can give Trump the platform he craves.

An inventor has come up with the perfect solution to save the upcoming presidential debate - a futuristic hologram 'phone booth' that can beam Donald Trump and Joe Biden on to the debate stage

Tech entrepreneur David Nussbaum, 46, thinks his revolutionary Epic PORTL hologram projection machine can give Trump the platform he craves

Nussbaum says the machine can project a crystal clear, 4K life-like Trump from the Oval Office on to the debate stage in what he calls single passenger holoportation. He said: 'I thought, wow, what a tremendous opportunity to have the debates safely and pandemic proof'

Nussbaum says the machine can project a crystal clear, 4K life-like Trump from the Oval Office on to the debate stage in what he calls single passenger holoportation.

A second 7ft x 5ft x 2ft machine could do the same for Biden, beaming his image from his campaign headquarters or any location in the world.

Both candidates would be able to see and interact with the other and TV cameras would record the full debate encounter for the American public.

Inventor and CEO of PORTL Inc, Nussbaum mocked up a rendering of how the debate stage would look with his incredible hologram machines, which are on sale for a cool $60,000.

He said: 'PORTL is the world's first and still only, completely self contained, 4K resolution human sized, single passenger holoportation machine.

'About a year-and-a-half ago, we developed this technology that will allow anybody to beam from wherever they are to wherever they need to be in real time.

'I came up with the idea for using PORTL technology for the presidential debate originally because Donald Trump was consistently interrupting the entire debate, both the moderator and the other candidate.

'Everybody was talking about how he should be muted or if there was some kind of mute button, and I thought, what better way to do that than to just beam him in.

'Unfortunately he was hit with the coronavirus, so now it's not just for muting, it's for safety.

'It's not safe for him to be around other people, it's not safe for Joe Biden, who's also a senior citizen to be in the same space.

'So I thought, wow, what a tremendous opportunity to have the debates safely and pandemic proof.'

Inventor and CEO of PORTL Inc, Nussbaum mocked up a rendering of how the debate stage would look with his incredible hologram machines, which are on sale for a cool $60,000

Nussbaum says that a virtual event using communication platforms like Zoom just won't have that 'emotional' connection his machines offer. The technology was used to bring legendary rapper Tupac Shakur back to life at Coachella festival

PORTL was founded in 2019 after Nussbaum became a leading expert in the hologram industry, having produced holograms for arena-sized concerts, a Christian Dior fashion show, and Sony's blockbuster movie premieres, including projects with Jimmy Kimmel, Jack Black, and the famous Ronald Reagan hologram

Nussbaum says that a virtual event using communication platforms like Zoom just won't have that 'emotional' connection his machines offer.

'People say why not just Zoom in or just use a satellite? The difference is with PORTL, with hologram presence, there's a real emotional connection the presenter or the person who was beaming in can have with the audience that they just can't have through Zoom.

'It's not just from the chest to the head, this is their entire body. When voting for the president, I want to see body language, I want to see everything that they're presenting.'

In the past the holograms were derived from a 19th Century technique called Pepper's Ghost.

 That method was used to bring legendary rapper Tupac Shakur back to life at Coachella festival. 

In a now famous performance Snoop Dogg was joined by a life-size hologram of Tupac who stunned the crowd of 75,000 fans when he appeared onstage at the festival in 2012. 

The bare-chested Tupac - who was dressed in sagging jeans and Timberland boots circa 1995, just like ones he wore around the time he was shot dead on September 13, 1996, aged 25.  

Nussbaum's machine was used during an iHeartRadio performance in September 

But Nussbaum says he has developed a new technology that vastly improves the lighting to make the image more life-like than ever and he is applying for patents. 

He took transparent LCD display technology and tweaked it for far better light and visuals.

PORTL was founded in 2019 after Nussbaum became a leading expert in the hologram industry, having produced holograms for arena-sized concerts, a Christian Dior fashion show, and Sony's blockbuster movie premieres, including projects with Jimmy Kimmel, Jack Black, and the famous Ronald Reagan hologram.

The Epic PORTL hologram projection machine is the first of a line of devices and software.

Los Angeles based Nussbaum added: 'Some of the uses for PORTL, can be described as anything from entertainment to information to education. For example, right now we're in the middle of a global pandemic, and people need to be somewhere.

'So when you can't be there, beam there. We are sending politicians, religious leaders, inspirational speakers, educators and entertainers, we're beaming them from their homes into locations all over the world.'

For more info visit PORTLhologram.com