14 DAY TRIAL // Soon, mobile phone users out there might be able to make Star Wars-style 3D hologram calls, as a Polish company called Leia Display Systems has started working on such a device.
As a recent article on Mirror explains, the company is working on system that will provide users with the possibility to view a 3D hologram image of the person at the other end of the line, just as in the 1977 blockbuster Star Wars.
In fact, the company seems confident that its solution will revolutionize video calling. “Our holograms will take video phone calls to the next level,” Leia Display Systems Chief Executive Marcin Panek said.
To make such a call, the user would have to sit in front of a high-tech camera that features two lenses and a microphone.
The camera blends together the two images taken by its lenses, and then streams them over the web to the recipient.
In order to enjoy the 3D hologram calls, users will also need a hologram machine capable of receiving said images and to project them onto a screen of water vapor.
“We are on the frontier of technology that was imagined in movies 40 years ago – it is science fiction becoming science fact,” Panek also said.
“It will be as if loved ones, friends and family are standing right in front of you while you talk with them halfway across the world.”
However, the machines that make holograms are still very large at the moment. In time, the company will make them smaller, even as small as to be set up on a coffee table in a living room.
Panek also explains that the idea of building a hologram phone came from watching the 3D effect that a laser creates when beamed onto dry ice. Unfortunately, no details on when we might see such devices made commercially available have been provided as of now.