Meet Queen University’s HoloFlex, a flexible smartphone that produces holograms

The Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, isn’t a stranger to mobile innovations — it made the ReFlex flexible smartphone concept after all. But in light of holograms (heh) becoming more and more popular in consumer technology, students at the school have decided to take it up to the next step with a

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Porsche ad turns your tablet into a floating-in-air “holographic” display

Full disclaimer: 99% of the time when someone’s talking about a “hologram” these days, whether it’s Microsoft with HoloLens or Tupac rising to a Coachella stage, it’s not a hologram at all. There are a million and one tricks to create floating-in-air images, and the vast majority of them have nothing to do with the sort of light-field capture that makes capital-h holograms the miracles (of science) they are. That said, we’re still suckers for a cool-looking tech demo ...

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