“What we see in films and call holograms are typically volumetric displays,” said Bouzbib, the lead author of the work. “These are graphics that appear in mid-air and can be viewed from various angles without the need for wearing virtual reality glasses. They are called true-3D graphics.”
Here is a link to the PDF that details the work: https://hal.science/hal-04981007v1/file/FlexiVol___CHI25 (2).pdf
i took “touchable” to mean you could literally feel the shape with your senses, but it appears what they are saying is it’s a way to interact with it, via pass through in various ways, etc. still pretty cool though
Perhaps pokable is a more apt description.
“Pokable” was my first hope too, but it doesn’t look so.
That’s rich coming from the ghost fucker.
Don’t judge until you try some ghost dick for yourself.
Words to live by, brother
Second Technician Arnold J Rimmer reporting for duty.
Nerd here. That’s soft-light Rimmer. He didn’t get the hard-light drive until they met Legion in season 6.
The only things he could physically interact until then were other holographic things provided by Holly or whatever his light bee was programmed to supply.
E-e-except where the script writers made a mistake. At one point he was able to smell something burning which definitely shouldn’t have been possible. Unless Holly simulated it for him anyway. That sort of shenanigan would be right up Holly’s alley now that I think about it.
(For the uninitiated, Holly is the sarcastic and dry witted AI in charge of supervising all ship computer operations. And he’s allegedly senile after 3 million years in deep space. Allegedly.)
