Major events in history, such as the London 2012 Olympics, brought 3D into the homes of Americans. However, it seems that the revolution has not gone beyond OLED or QLED, and weren’t we going for 8K resolution? A group of researchers has just presented the first invention that turns your television into a hologram, and they want you to have it at home. Can you imagine how they have achieved it? The process is so futuristic that many speak of an “unrepeatable miracle”.
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Basically, scientists have created a revolutionary gadget that allows every person who has a standard display, for example, a TV or smartphone, to have a projector of a completely different type – holographic. As described in a paper published in Optics Letters, this novel invention has the potential to transform human experiences with digital content.
The essence of this technology is that it uses a layer located in front of the display. This thin film movie is coated with some material that can manipulate the light waves to provide a holographic view. Whenever an image is thrown on the film by the projector, the light in the course gets reflected and then gets re-fracted and one gets to see a three-dimensional hologram floating in the air.
Perhaps one of the striking features of this invention is that it is very simple and economically priced. Now, holographic display does not again need expensive and sophisticated gadgets and gizmos like those used in the earlier holographic tricks; this can be easily achieved using simple commercial devices.
Originally, individual slices of the thin film were also cheap to manufacture, which meant it was marketable for large groups of people and various industries. The values of the performance characteristics of the invention have been determined by the researchers through various tests.
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Regarding the further development, it will be possible to imply that this technology may influence several branches. Thus, in the sphere of entertainment, it may open opportunities to watch live singers or actors performing on stage, and the characters of the film seeming to be in the room during a screening, for example.
In education and training, holographic displays can enhance learning of concepts that are otherwise complex or, in practice, simulate the environment through which objectives of learning can be achieved. The health care delivery sector could also benefit from this, as it could lead to the modeling of organs or body parts to aid in diagnostics, surgery planning and treatment.
Furthermore, real-time remote expert/specialist holographic presentations might be useful to increase the availability of healthcare services in less developed regions. What is fascinating to know is that the current development of this technology is still under way and active in America.
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This success also reveals that research and development should be funded by government grants. The authors have conducted the study with the help of grants given by the NSF and the AFOSR organizations, which have traditionally supported young and eager scientists in their attempts to achieve outstanding results.
Going by the current trends and advancements made in this technology, it can be expected that more and more applications will be developed in the future. The researchers are already in the process of increasing the sharpness and depth of the holographic images, as well as coming up with strategies for making the display item engage the audience.
What do you think will become of this invention in a few years? Maybe it will remain something experimental, like the holographic television that the BBC acquired in 2016. However, there is also the possibility that it will go further and become a device that we all use, something that brings us even closer to the hologram we have seen in science fiction for decades. Don’t you remember when Michael Jackson “came back” to life in 2014? That technology was responsible.
