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Your smartphone could soon feature the ability to show holograms.
Scientists have created new light sensors inside a camera that produce 3D images in a development that could lead to holograms in your phone. According to Ahn et.el (2021), the technology to include new light sensors inside a camera that create 3D images is now possible. Due to it's compact form, this could finally lead to the long-sought goal of producing holograms without the need for external equipment.
If this technology succeeds, it can overcome the barrier of traditional holograms being restricted to flat surfaces like credit cards or photographic plates, creating hologram images in the open air is technically impossible using conventional holography methods. (Smalley 2018)
Glasses Free Holographic Technology on Mobile
The future of holographic augmented reality seems like it's on glasses, but it's also on phones. One company is planning an in-between solution this year that sounds bizarre, but also is not far off from what already exists. Ikin is a company promising a holographic glasses-free technology, called Ryz, that will connect to phones and offer a way to share 3D images with others.
While AR headsets are currently few and far between, phones are clearly where AR is at for most people for the time being. Ikin aims to build its peripheral for current phones, (Aramo 2022)
The encouraging news is RYZ development kits allows developers to repurpose existing content and apps to enable holograms, as well as create new holographic content. All the applications that exist on a phone are ready to be translated into a holographic environment which decreases the need for additional R&D time (Freeman 2021)
Other forms of upcoming mobile holographic technology
Samsung has also entered the arena and patented a device which doesn’t need viewers to look at a flat surface at a specific angle to see the hologram.
The document (US Patent and Trademark Office 2018) describes a series of micro-lenses arrays set on a flat surface that focuses the light beam emitted from the display to project the 3D image into mid-air thanks, to the company’s new spatial light modulator. (Diaz 2018)
DIY Hologram on Mobile Devices
The DIY approach to creating a holographic display is surprisingly simple yet it's only limitations mainly relates to area of display. Currently, there are extremely few commercial options or products available to replicate the experiment from below which could be a potential market gap for this form of technology.
However, transforming it into ubiquitous use in education might prove to be challenging and limited by resources at this stage. Nonetheless, the video below proves that hologram technology is indeed possible with our current Mobile Devices.
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