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Researchers Develop a Hologram You Can Manipulate With Your Hands

Users can grab and move virtual objects, akin to how we tap and drag things on our mobile phones.

What If I Don’t Want to Be a Hologram After I Die?

It’s October 2022, five years after the death of Tom Petty, and you and your family have just arrived at the Hollywood Bowl to see the late musician’s digital resurrection. It’s only lasers, of course, you know this, but as an ultra-realistic Petty zaps to life onstage, it’s a distant truth, washed away by a wave…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon’s ‘Hologram’ Is Not Actually a Hologram

French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is pulling out all the stops in the final days of the campaign season, beaming a holographic image of his far-left message to six cities across the country. There’s only one problem with Melenchon’s incredible technological feat: It’s not actually a hologram. Melenchon used the same technique that brought Tupac…

Tech News Michael Nunez

You Aren’t Living in a Hologram, Even if You Wish You Were

You may have read today that the entire universe is a giant hologram. Maybe your mind was blown while you hit your Big Bong and contemplated a 2D universe, or that researchers had somehow found substantial evidence you were “living in an illusion.” No, nope. Not what happened. Rather, physicists figured out that one of…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Thank God That the George Carlin Hologram Rumor Is Wrong

Earlier today The Hollywood Reporter reported that the forthcoming National Museum of Comedy in Jamestown, New York would feature a performing hologram of George Carlin. Let us all be deeply thankful that is not actually happening.. Speaking to THR, the museum’s curator Kliph Nesteroff described the Carlin hologram as a gimmick designed to draw comedy…

Tech News Avery Ellis

It’s 2026 and Anyone in This Room Could Be a Hologram

Holoportation is now a thing, so start slapping everyone in arm’s distance to make sure they’re real. This new technology by Microsoft Research uses 3D motion capture and Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality hardware to “holoport” people from one place to another, which is definitely going to contribute to a universal feeling of paranoia in the…

Tech News Avery Ellis

This Is What Microsoft’s HoloLens Looks Like In Person

We’ve seen it demoed on stage. We used a janky (but amazing) prototype—but until today we’ve never actually seen Microsoft’s real holographic headset in person. Now, here it is: a weird, futuristic visor with four visible cameras, two speakers and what looks like six buttons. Let’s take a closer look at hardware behind Microsoft’s augmented,…

Tech News Sean Buckley

9 of the Best Holograms of All Time

Holograms are here. At least that’s what Microsoft wants you to think with its HoloLens headset and Windows Holographic software. But holograms are no new thing, especially if you consider the mountains of science fiction fodder that has been dedicated to the subject. I asked you all last week what was your favorite hologram, fictional…

Tech News Darren Orf

Watch a Dead Michael Jackson Perform as a Hologram

Last night’s Billboard Music Awards brought Michael Jackson back from the dead in the form of a hologram—and you can watch the footage right here. Spoiler: there is moonwalking. Michael Jackson isn’t, of course, the first recording artists to make an appearance in holographic form—Tupac beat him to it—but he is arguably the biggest. It…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Make a DIY 3D “Hologram” Like the One That Brought Tupac Back to Life

Holograms are super cool, but they’re hard to make at home. Pepper’s Ghost, on the other hand, is a relatively simple 19th century optical trick that looks like a 3D hologram and brought a very dead Tupac Shakur back to the stage. And Joey Shanks is here to show us how to rig up a…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Watch a Lingerie-Wearing Hologram Model Strut Half-Naked

Tupac hologram, you were amazing. Beautiful girl in lingerie hologram, you might be even better. A lingerie store in France called Empreinte is using a hologram woman in lingerie after the store closes to attract people. I think it’s working. The hologram actually looks pretty well done. See it from the right angles and you…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Is How the Tupac Hologram That Wasn’t Really a Hologram Worked

We already knew that the Tupac Hologram wasn’t really a hologram but actually just a modern regurgitation of the old mid-19th century trick known as “Pepper’s Ghost”. If you were confused on how that illusion worked, be confused no more! Here it is. https://gizmodo.com/tupac-hologram-wasnt-a-hologram-5902625 Roxanne Palmer at the International Business TImes made this infographic that…

Tech News Casey Chan

Hologram Creator Explains How a $400,000 Tupac Came To Be

The video of a dead Tupac Shakur rapping on stage at Coachella is really quite amazing. Now, the creator of the hologram has explained to MTV how he brought the rapper back to life. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-dead-tupac-perform-as-a-hologram-at-coachella-5902274 Creating a believable hologram, capable of performing two songs, isn’t easy—or cheap. From the MTV article: “We worked with Dr.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watch a Dead Tupac Perform As a Hologram at Coachella

If you were curious as to how a dead Tupac and Nate Dogg were going to “perform” at Coachella, well, here it is. Not looking a day over 25, the digitally created Tupac Shakur hologram acknowledged the Coachella crowd and rapped two of his songs. https://gizmodo.com/dead-nate-dogg-performing-at-coachella-as-a-hologram-5901535 If you squint really hard (or get really high),…

Tech News Casey Chan

Apple Continues Working On Kinect-Like Tracking With Projected Controls and Glasses-Free 3D

File this under cool shit we probably won’t see for a long time. Apple just recently filed filed an expanded patent application for a system that would detect hand/head motion around a computer and let you manipulate projected image controls. There are a whole bunch of systems at work here, and they all sound cool.…

Tech News Brent Rose

Many Bothans Died to Bring You This Working 3D Hologram

They’re calling it a 3D laser display, but I see all my holographic dreams being projected without a screen in mid-air. Now if we could only stuff it into an R2 unit. Up until now when you saw a hologram it was probably projected onto some sort of screen. Researchers at Burton Inc. (not the…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Our Holographic Future Will Debut In The Back Seat Of A Car

Imagine being 8-years-old again and on a long car trip. Instead of whining “Are we there, yet?”, you pick up a controller and play with your holographic animals. It sounds like science fiction, but it could be reality someday. Researchers at the Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEELab) in Australia are developing a holographic entertainment…

Tech News Kelly

The universe probably isn’t a giant hologram after all

One of the strangest and most exotic theories to come out of theoretical physics is that the entire universe is a projection of a two-dimensional shell. But the latest evidence suggests the cosmic hologram really is just a crazy theory. While the notion of a holographic universe opens itself up to all sorts of fanciful…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Darpa’s Hologram Goggles Will Unleash Drone Hell

The Pentagon’s mad-science arm wants robotic death-from-above, on demand. And the key to getting it done just might be holograms. Let me explain. Right now, authorizing and targeting air strikes is a process that’s sometimes bureaucratic, and sometimes dangerous as hell. Bureaucratic as in the Stanley McChrystal phase of the Afghanistan war, when it took…

Tech News Noah Shachtman - Wired

3D Holograms Invade the Fourth Dimension

Click to viewHolography has just gained a fourth dimension, bringing the prospect of Star Wars-style holographic telepresence into the real world. Ever since Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks made the first laser holograms in 1963, holography has been the future of three-dimensional imaging. Once created, a hologram can be illuminated to create a pattern of…

Tech News Jeff Hecht - New Scientist

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Researchers Develop a Hologram You Can Manipulate With Your Hands

What If I Don’t Want to Be a Hologram After I Die?

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon’s ‘Hologram’ Is Not Actually a Hologram

You Aren’t Living in a Hologram, Even if You Wish You Were

Thank God That the George Carlin Hologram Rumor Is Wrong

It’s 2026 and Anyone in This Room Could Be a Hologram

This Is What Microsoft’s HoloLens Looks Like In Person

9 of the Best Holograms of All Time

Watch a Dead Michael Jackson Perform as a Hologram

Make a DIY 3D “Hologram” Like the One That Brought Tupac Back to Life

Watch a Lingerie-Wearing Hologram Model Strut Half-Naked

This Is How the Tupac Hologram That Wasn’t Really a Hologram Worked

Hologram Creator Explains How a $400,000 Tupac Came To Be

Watch a Dead Tupac Perform As a Hologram at Coachella

Apple Continues Working On Kinect-Like Tracking With Projected Controls and Glasses-Free 3D

Many Bothans Died to Bring You This Working 3D Hologram

Our Holographic Future Will Debut In The Back Seat Of A Car

The universe probably isn’t a giant hologram after all

Darpa’s Hologram Goggles Will Unleash Drone Hell

3D Holograms Invade the Fourth Dimension

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