{"id":75539,"date":"2018-01-24T12:42:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/better-than-holograms-a-new-3d-projection-into-thin-air"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:42:50","slug":"better-than-holograms-a-new-3d-projection-into-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/better-than-holograms-a-new-3d-projection-into-thin-air","title":{"rendered":"Better than holograms: A new 3D projection into thin air"},"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\/YRZMdQOMPNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the enduring sci-fi moments of the big screen\u2014R2-D2 beaming a 3D image of Princess Leia into thin air in \u201cStar Wars\u201d\u2014is closer to reality thanks to the smallest of screens: dust-like particles.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have figured out how to manipulate nearly unseen specks in the air and use them to create 3D images that are more realistic and clearer than holograms, according to a study in Wednesday\u2019s journal <i>Nature<\/i>. The study\u2019s lead author, Daniel Smalley, said the new technology is \u201cprinting something in space, just erasing it very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this case, scientists created a small butterfly appearing to dance above a finger and an image of a graduate student imitating Leia in the Star Wars scene.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-01-holograms-d-thin-air.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;01-holograms-d-thin-air.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the enduring sci-fi moments of the big screen\u2014R2-D2 beaming a 3D image of Princess Leia into thin air in \u201cStar Wars\u201d\u2014is closer to reality thanks to the smallest of screens: dust-like particles. Scientists have figured out how to manipulate nearly unseen specks in the air and use them to create 3D images that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holograms","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75539","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}