3D Touch Hologram Tech is here at Last
Holograms, a favorite futuristic feature
in sci-fi genres are usually different from holograms that we really have in
today’s age. From the holograms in films such as Star Wars, I-Robot, AI, to
Paycheck and more, holograms are in 3D and colorful. A 3D virtual image in real
time, untouchable but visible is the fantasy we made up for the future, but
today computer scientists made something far more better and useful than normal
light or laser based holograms. Haptics known as touch feedback technology has
been used for entertainment, rehabilitation and surgical training. It’s a
widely useful kind of technology and it just got upgraded when Dr Ben Long and
his colleagues from the University of Bristol’s Department of Computer Science
figured out a way to produce 3-D shapes that can be seen and felt in midair,
using ultrasound. This new technology can be useful for surgeons to explore a
CT scan by letting them feel where a disease like a tumor can be to artefacts
in museums. A focused complex pattern of ultrasound creates air disturbances
that can be seen as floating 3D shapes. They tested it out by making
depressions with the 3D shape on oil. It makes invisible 3D shapes that can be
added to 3D displays allowing the shapes to be seen and used in real time.
With
this technology we would have touchable holograms very soon, and I can’t wait
because it would mean virtual reality video games can be touchable in the
future. We wouldn't have to rely on the Oculus to see and play video games in a
3D landscape. If 3D haptic holograms can be up-scaled then the hologram
fighting simulator for my favorite sci-fi super hero comic or movies, X-Men can
be a reality. Sports simulators can be made too like in the sci-fi movie The
Island, so most definitely this could mean gaming could get a lot more fun and
active. Imagine watching movies with 3D holograms too or having crime scenes be
in a room at a crime lab without having to go there in person. It all makes me
wish scientists could figure out how to stop aging so I could live longer to
see this technology grow and so many other things to come. I always wondered or
wanted the holograms in movies to be touchable because they looked like they
could be and you’d feel or think “I wanna reach out and touch it”. It’s
beautiful that it’s possible for us to touch something physically not there as
if it had an actual mass and it’s incredibly that we can program it at will.
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