{"id":116073,"date":"2020-11-20T03:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/voxons-us10000-hologram-table-no-glasses-required"},"modified":"2020-11-20T03:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:02:53","slug":"voxons-us10000-hologram-table-no-glasses-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/voxons-us10000-hologram-table-no-glasses-required","title":{"rendered":"Voxon\u2019s US$10,000 hologram table \u2013 no glasses required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/voxons-us10000-hologram-table-no-glasses-required.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interactive 3D images that appear to float in the air, above a table that a group of people can stand around without needing any special headsets or glasses: that\u2019s what South Australian company Voxon Photonics has built with its US$10,000 VX1 table.<\/p>\n<p>Fiction has promised us holograms for decades, with one of the most famous examples appearing in 1977\u2019s <i><i>Star Wars<\/i>: A New Hope<\/i>. On board the Millennium Falcon, R2D2 and Chewbacca play some sort of digital board game, interacting with figures built out of light hovering in the air above a table.<\/p>\n<p>Such things have been a long time coming to the real world. VR and AR can both somewhat replicate the experience, but they require headsets. In the best case, these are a bit antisocial, stopping you from looking others in the eye. In the worst case, they completely remove the wearer from the real world to immerse them in virtual space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interactive 3D images that appear to float in the air, above a table that a group of people can stand around without needing any special headsets or glasses: that\u2019s what South Australian company Voxon Photonics has built with its US$10,000 VX1 table. Fiction has promised us holograms for decades, with one of the most famous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1923,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-holograms","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116074,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116073\/revisions\/116074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}