Back in 2012 as lines formed outside the New York City Apple Store on Fifth Avenue prior to the release of the iPhone 5, the local Fox News affiliate reported how the iPhone 5 would feature a laser keyboard and a holographic display. Of course, the iPhone 5 had none of those things. The reporter had confused a video of Aatma Studio’s concept iPhone 5 with features that would be on the real device.
Not that using an iPhone makes creating a hologram any less complex. This is the Abstract from the researcher’s article which is a summary of the research done, the methodology of the research, and the author’s findings:
“We propose a method of computer-generated holography (CGH) using incoherent light emitted from a mobile phone screen. In this method, we suppose a cascade of holograms in which the first hologram is a color image displayed on the mobile phone screen. The hologram cascade is synthesized by solving an inverse problem with respect to the propagation of incoherent light. We demonstrate a three-dimensional color image reproduction using a two-layered hologram cascade composed of an iPhone and a spatial light modulator.”
