smartphone projects 3D images

HoloFlex is a holographic, flexible smartphone projecting 3D images into the palm of your hand.

Researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University have developed HoloFlex, the world’s first holographic flexible smartphone. The device is capable of rendering 3D images with ‘motion parallax and stereoscopy’ to multiple simultaneous users without head tracking or glasses.

Dr. Vertegaal, explains:

“HoloFlex offers a completely new way of interacting with your smartphone. It allows for glasses-free interactions with 3D video and images in a way that does not encumber the user.
By employing a depth camera, users can also perform holographic video conferences with one another. When bending the display users literally pop out of the screen and can even look around each other, with their faces rendered correctly from any angle to any onlooker.”

HoloFlex features a 1920×1080 full high-definition Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (FOLED) touchscreen display. Images are rendered into 12-pixel wide circular blocks rendering the full view of the 3D object from a particular viewpoint. These pixel blocks project through a 3D printed flexible microlens array consisting of over 16,000 fisheye lenses. The resulting 160 x 104 resolution image allows users to inspect a 3D object from any angle simply by rotating the phone.

Smartphone projects 3D images

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