The Force is strong with
holographic scientists these days. Researchers from MIT unveiled the fastest
3-D holographic video to date at a conference in San Francisco January 23, filming a graduate
student dressed as Princess Leia and projecting her as a postcard-sized
hologram in real time.
The holographic device plays
a 3-inch projection at 15 frames per second, just shy of movie refresh rates of
24 to 30 frames per second, the MIT researchers demonstrated at the Society of
Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers’ conference on practical holography.
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