{"id":130174,"date":"2021-11-07T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/these-hologram-machines-bring-us-a-step-closer-to-our-sci-fi-dreams"},"modified":"2021-11-07T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:43:19","slug":"these-hologram-machines-bring-us-a-step-closer-to-our-sci-fi-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/these-hologram-machines-bring-us-a-step-closer-to-our-sci-fi-dreams","title":{"rendered":"These hologram machines bring us a step closer to our sci-fi dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJE8pfPfVRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is an installment of The Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Thursday morning by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/its-the-news-reimagined\">subscribing here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Holograms have been a staple of science fiction for centuries, but now they may be on the verge of reality thanks to PORTL, a startup based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>How it works: The startup has designed large, vending-machine-sized booths that they call \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlhologram.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PORTL Epic<\/a>\u201d to generate real-time, life-size holograms. 100 of these booths are currently located all around the world from Abu Dhabi to Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is an installment of The Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Thursday morning by subscribing here. Holograms have been a staple of science fiction for centuries, but now they may be on the verge of reality thanks to PORTL, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-holograms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130174","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}