{"id":127788,"date":"2021-09-17T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/we-created-holograms-you-can-touch-you-could-soon-shake-a-virtual-colleagues-hand"},"modified":"2021-09-17T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T01:22:38","slug":"we-created-holograms-you-can-touch-you-could-soon-shake-a-virtual-colleagues-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/we-created-holograms-you-can-touch-you-could-soon-shake-a-virtual-colleagues-hand","title":{"rendered":"We created holograms you can touch: You could soon shake a virtual colleague\u2019s hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-created-holograms-you-can-touch-you-could-soon-shake-a-virtual-colleagues-hand3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The TV show \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d introduced millions of people to the idea of a holodeck: an immersive, realistic 3D holographic projection of a complete environment that you could interact with and even touch.<\/p>\n<p>In the 21st century, holograms are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature25176?sf180567500=1\">already being used<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/1179133.1179154\">variety of ways<\/a> such as medical systems, education, art, security and defense. Scientists are still <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/10-best-real-world-applications-of-hologram-technology\">developing ways<\/a> to use lasers, modern digital processors, and motion-sensing technologies to create several <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/10-best-real-world-applications-of-hologram-technology\">different types of holograms<\/a> which could change the way we interact.<\/p>\n<p>My colleagues and I working in the University of Glasgow\u2019s bendable electronics and sensing technologies research group have <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/aisy.202100090\">now developed<\/a> a system of holograms of people using \u201caerohaptics,\u201d creating feelings of touch with jets of air. Those jets of air deliver a sensation of touch on people\u2019s fingers, hands and wrists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TV show \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d introduced millions of people to the idea of a holodeck: an immersive, realistic 3D holographic projection of a complete environment that you could interact with and even touch. In the 21st century, holograms are already being used in a variety of ways such as medical systems, education, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1923,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-holograms","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127788","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}