Items tagged with holograms

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 03, 2021

Microsoft Mesh Taps Azure To Turn You Into A Hologram For Star Wars-Style Meetings

At this year's Ignite conference, Microsoft unveiled a new mixed reality platform powered by Azure that brings holographic teleportation (or "holoportation") into the forefront of today's digital landscape. It is called Microsoft Mesh, and it uses 3D capture technology to beam images of people into a virtual scene... Read more...

by Shane McGlaun - Thu, Jan 25, 2018

Laser And Particle Volumetric Projection System Produces Star Wars-Like Floating 3D Images

One of the most memorable scenes in all of science fiction films is the scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke first sees the holographic projection of Princess Leia while trying to clean R2-D2. Many fans of that film have been waiting for decades for a similar projection system to launch. Physicists have... Read more...

by Brittany Goetting - Sat, May 20, 2017

Microsoft Research Unveils Compact Holographic AR Wide Angle Displays To Advance HoloLens Technology

Microsoft hopes to soon rival the holograms featured in sci-fi works like Star Trek and Star Wars. The company just unveiled compact holographic AR wide-angle displays that it anticipates will advance HoloLens technology. Microsoft has been experimenting with true, phase-only holograms that are created through the... Read more...