Hologram Projectors: Coming Soon to a Smartphone Near You
 

Hologram Projectors: Coming Soon to a Smartphone Near You
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When Coachella’s organizers decided to have a hologram of late rapper Tupac appear onstage during the 2012 dates of the music festival, they used a high-powered projector to create the uncanny "performance." **w, in 2014, a startup called Ostendo is taking that kind of tech**logy and shrinking it down until it’s small e**ugh to fit inside your iPhone.

Ostendo is working on computer chips capable of projecting 3D holograms that will be tiny e**ugh to fit inside a smartphone. The Carlsbad, Calif.-based company, which has raised $90 million from Peter Thiel and venture capitalists, is already prepping 2D project units for sale in 2015. But the company wants to start manufacturing a version of the chip with 3D capabilities for the second half of 2015, with an expected price of $30 a pop. The chip, which the Wall Street Journal describes as the size of a Tic Tac, can project an image on up to 48 inches of display; multiple chips working together can project far larger and more complicated images. Read more...

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