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- New Tech : An advanced computer chip capable of projecting three-dimensional holograms from a smartphone has been developed by computer scientists, designed to display videos and images without the need for 3D glasses.
- Ostendo Technologies, the California-based company behind the technology, has so far received over $120 million (£72 million) in funding in order to develop and bring the chip to market, which it hopes to do so by next year
- At only 0.5cm3 in size the chip is small enough to fit inside a smartphone, while other versions can be integrated into televisions. Ostendo predicts that each chipset will cost around $30.
- 'Display is the last frontier' Hussein El-Ghoroury, founder and chief executive of Ostendo, told the Wall Street Journal in a recent profile. "Over the years, processing power has improved and networks have more bandwidth, but what is missing is comparable advancement in display.
- Imagine if everything coming back to you was in 3D - all of your shopping, all of your gaming, every way you retrieve data.
- Interest in 3D technology could grow later then year when Amazon's smartphone is launched which is expected to have hardware-assisted 3D effects.
- Unlike Ostendo, however, Amazon's phone would be incapable of projecting 3D images.
- Projectors used to display floating images in the past, such as Tupac Shakur's posthumous appearance at Coachella festival in 2012, relied on a system of large machines and mirrors.
- The size of Ostendo's chip means that El-Ghoroury hopes it can be used in even smaller devices like smartwatches and other wearable technology in the future !!
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