Just in clip for the newfangled Star Wars plastic film , it seems the technology from the originals is start to come honest . First it waslightsabers , thenprosthetic armslike Luke Skywalker ’s , and now we ’re being promised holograph projectors like R2D2 - although maybe not as cute .
At the import if you want to project three dimensional holograms into space you demand to use mirrors or multiple sources placed around where the holograph is formed , so that luminance can interact from different directions .
Ostendo Technologies , a California start - up are dreaming much smaller . They have already demonstrated a prototype potato chip less than a centimeter long and a crystalline lens that fits on the palm of your hand . This tiny apparatus can , they say , moderate the color and brightness of enough LED beam to illumine up a million pixels on a cover with a 1.2 m diagonal . Their short term end is to put these into smart phones in the next year so that people can project picture on any handy surface . Having already created a 5000dpi projector , 20 meter what is used in iPads , this part of Ostendo ’s plan looks well under way .
However , the more ambitious goal , which Ostendo ’s founder Hussein El - Ghoroury hopes to achieve as soon as 2016 , is to make three dimensional displays propose from a single phone . Ostendo has wow diarist with a presentation of3 - five hundred spinning dicethat allow the spectator to move their military position while the die go on to look reproducible . “ ideate if everything come back to you was in 3-D — all of your shopping , all of your gambling , every way you retrieve data , ” El - Ghoroury said .
What Ostendo are not revealing is how they do to project these images onto the breeze from a individual focal point . Traditional hologram work by having optical maser visible radiation from dissimilar directionsinterfere with each other . The mind was an unexpected side effect of the quest to improveX - Ray microscopy .
However , unless Ostendo are going to need people to use two smartphones place well away from each other , they will need something quite dissimilar if they ’re run to produce three dimensional Princess Leias . What that might be , no one eff , although rumors are go around that cock-a-hoop player areon board with the thought , or acompeting version . commit the failure of preceding 3 - five hundred technologies , some people areskepticalthat this is more than ballyhoo .
Meanwhile a Polish troupe promising hologram on tablet are even more explicitly sympathetic to Star War enthusiasts , promise itselfLeia Display Systems . However , they are being a petty more forthcoming with how they design to achieve their end , saying they will practice a field of water vaporization as a screen .
