Ground-Breaking Hologram Technology Brings Sci-Fi Battles To Life - IFLScience
"Most 3D displays require you to look at a screen, but our technology allows us to create images floating in space – and they're physical; not some mirage," lead co-author Dan Smalley, from Brigham Young University, said in a statement."This technology can make it possible to create vibrant animated content that orbits around or crawls on or explodes out of every day physical objects.".
There are also miniatures of the Enterprise and a Klingon Bird-of-Prey exchanging fire, with the hologram not only tracing the path of the photon torpedoes but also drawing little explosions.The team also started using clever optical tricks to go beyond the physical limitation of the display"We can play some fancy tricks with motion parallax and we can make the display look a lot bigger than it physically is," added co-lead author Wesley Rogers