{"id":33983,"date":"2017-01-31T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/help-me-obi-wan-new-hologram-technology-mimics-star-wars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:48:48","slug":"help-me-obi-wan-new-hologram-technology-mimics-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/help-me-obi-wan-new-hologram-technology-mimics-star-wars","title":{"rendered":"Help Me, Obi-Wan! New Hologram Technology Mimics \u2018Star Wars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/help-me-obi-wan-new-hologram-technology-mimics-star-wars.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Princess Leia\u2019s holographic plea in the classic film \u201cStar Wars\u201d inspired researchers to work toward a device that could project real-life sci-fi holograms. Now, the futuristic 3D imaging may be one step closer to reality.<\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) invented a tiny device that creates the highest-quality <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/34652-hologram.html\">holographic images<\/a> ever achieved, the scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>Study lead researcher Lei Wang, a Ph.D. student at the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering, said he first learned about the concept of holographic imaging from the \u201cStar Wars\u201d movies. However, these futuristic-looking 3D images could be used for more practical ends than sending messages from a galaxy far, far away. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/53775-photos-microsoft-hololens-teleports-hologram.html\">Photos: Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens Transforms Surroundings with Holographic Tech<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/35517-star-wars-style-holograms-created.html#sthash.xr0tDbeB.gbpl\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/35517-star-wars-style-holograms-created...tDbeB.gbpl<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princess Leia\u2019s holographic plea in the classic film \u201cStar Wars\u201d inspired researchers to work toward a device that could project real-life sci-fi holograms. Now, the futuristic 3D imaging may be one step closer to reality. A team of physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) invented a tiny device that creates the highest-quality holographic images [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1923,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-holograms","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65239,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions\/65239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}