{"id":89924,"date":"2019-04-24T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/solving-a-math-problem-just-brought-holograms-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2019-04-24T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T21:22:58","slug":"solving-a-math-problem-just-brought-holograms-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/solving-a-math-problem-just-brought-holograms-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Solving a Math Problem Just Brought Holograms Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solving-a-math-problem-just-brought-holograms-closer-to-reality3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/02\/14\/holograms-arent-the-stuff-of-science-fiction-anymore\/\">Holograms<\/a> are a staple in <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/science-fiction\/\">science fiction<\/a>, but creating ones detailed enough to have serious applications in the real world has proved <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/17\/you-can-ban-a-person-but-what-about-their-hologram\/\">difficult<\/a>. While scientists have been slowly pushing the field of holographic projection forward, they haven\u2019t been able to overcome a problem called cross-talk. However, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-019-0393-7\">a recent paper<\/a> published in <em>Nature, <\/em>they have been able to manipulate the shape of light to overcome this, thus allowing them to produce 3D holograms that are orders of magnitude clearer, larger, and more detailed.<\/p>\n<p><b>What Are Holograms?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Simple holograms are 2D surfaces that produce the illusion of a 3D object when light is shined through it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/04\/23\/solving-a-math-problem-just-brought-holograms-closer-to-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holograms are a staple in science fiction, but creating ones detailed enough to have serious applications in the real world has proved difficult. While scientists have been slowly pushing the field of holographic projection forward, they haven\u2019t been able to overcome a problem called cross-talk. However, in a recent paper published in Nature, they have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holograms","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89924","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=89924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}