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Scientists create world-first touchable 3D holograms that float in air (interestingengineering.com)
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“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%20%282%29.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I could not find a hard light Rimmer saluting, so I wad forced to use soft light Rimmer. And I had just watched S6E2 Legion a couple hours before posting this.