The HoloFlex uses a 1920×1080 full high-definition Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (FOLED) touchscreen display, which provides viewers with a wide-angle view of a 3D object from different viewpoints.
“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,” said Dr. Roel Vertegaal, Professor of HCI at Queen’s School of Computing and director of the Human Media Lab.
A 3D image is rendered into 12-pixel wide circular blocks, which project through a 3D-printed flexible microlens array that consists of 16,640 fisheye lenses, resulting in a glasses-free 106×104 resolution image that uses motion parallax and stereoscopy to create a “holographic” image that can be viewed by multiple users from any angle by rotating the phone.
“By employing a depth camera, users can also perform holographic video conferences with one another,” said Dr. Vertegaal. “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.”
That limited resolution, of course, is what makes it clear that this remains a research project, with massive potential for commercialization when the researchers can figure out how to improve the pixelated look of a 106×104 3D image on a 1080p smartphone screen.
Among the many uses for the technology foreseen by its developers are 3D teleconferencing, holographic gaming, and the creation and editing of 3D models.
Research for the HoloFlex was supported by Immersion Canada Inc. and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
In February, the Human Media Lab announced its ReFlex flexible smartphone, a full-colour, high-resolution and wireless flexible smartphone powered by a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and 2 GB of memory, which also features a bend sensor, enabling the user to move objects along the z-axis of the display by bending the phone.
The Human Media Lab has previously invented ubiquitous eye tracking sensors, eye tracking TVs and cellphones, a flexible phone called PaperPhone, a flexible iPad called PaperTab, and a pseudo-holographic teleconferencing system called TeleHuman.
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Hologram phone sounds good - but lies and deceit
concerning facts of science are educating the new generations to KNOW
that a hologram is a piece of cheap plastic stuck onto a phone made by
slave labor for the enrichment of North American Oligarchs . What is the
actual definition of "Hologram" because there is misinformation being
seeded in the world by Queens media lab who are lying about the science
behind their Flexible plastic micro lens stereoscopic 3D screen . IS IT
HOLOGRAPHIC..? . No but telling lies and mis-truth to the public is
standard product launch strategy where money is more important than
integrity? ... WHY CALL IT A HOLOGRAM PHONE? . just because it sounds
good and can leech goodwill off the star-wars sci fi lie on holography
too . What about holographer's lively-hoods . what are they selling .
NOTHING . just search e-bay "Hologram" and you will see why..... Drop
the Phony-Gram label and use your imagination media lab . The words
Hologram and Holography have a scientific definition and it is certainly
not plastic phone screen . Make up your own name for your stereo fly's
eye array lenticular plastic screen . IT'S NOT A HOLOGRAPHIC HOLOGRAM or
"HOLO"-THING .The word Hologram is already taken . Get your own name .
DON'T STEAL OURS..! . Please have some integrity and speak from truth
MEDIA LAB..! ... Your device is more of a "Gabriel Lippmann's
integral photography phone" really if you analyze it.