Hologram experts can now create real-life images that move in the air – EurekAlert

IMAGE: A tiny Starship Enterprise fires on a tiny Klingon Battle cruiser with real animated images created in thin air.
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Credit: BYU
They may be tiny weapons, but Brigham Young University’s holography research group has figured out how to create lightsabers — green for Yoda and red for Darth Vader, naturally — with actual luminous beams rising from them.
Inspired by the displays of science fiction, the researchers have also engineered battles between equally small versions of the Starship…

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