{"id":91415,"date":"2019-05-29T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/this-volkswagen-prototype-has-a-holographic-interface"},"modified":"2019-05-29T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:03:06","slug":"this-volkswagen-prototype-has-a-holographic-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/this-volkswagen-prototype-has-a-holographic-interface","title":{"rendered":"This Volkswagen Prototype Has a Holographic Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-volkswagen-prototype-has-a-holographic-interface2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In what the German automaker is calling a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-newsroom.com\/en\/press-releases\/world-premiere-an-interplay-of-light-and-lightness-a-hologram-in-the-gti-5038\">world premiere<\/a>,\u201d Volkswagen\u2019s futuristic Golf GTI Aurora concept has a high-end sound system in its trunk that can be operated with a hologram.<\/p>\n<p>You can leave your 3D glasses and augmented reality gloves at home: the hologram floats freely in the air and can be operated without any external aids. Though to be fair, VW is being very vague about the details of the technology behind the interface.<\/p>\n<p><b>Floating Images<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are only <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/physicists-made-star-wars-style-3d-projections-reality\">scratching the surface<\/a> of creating 3D holograms that can be viewed from any angle. Current state holographic displays also tend to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2018\/7\/24\/17607136\/the-looking-glass-holographic-display-hologram-3d-image-kickstarter\">extremely expensive<\/a> and unwieldy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/vw-hologram-sound-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o! In what the German automaker is calling a \u201cworld premiere,\u201d Volkswagen\u2019s futuristic Golf GTI Aurora concept has a high-end sound system in its trunk that can be operated with a hologram. You can leave your 3D glasses and augmented reality gloves at home: the hologram floats freely in the air and can be operated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,11,1923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-biotech-medical","category-holograms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91415","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=91415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}