The past few decades have seen numerous attempts to bring 3D animation to computers and consumer devices, but results have been far from successful. Even though 3D TVs made it to market several years ago and events such as the Olympics and the World Cup were captured in stereo, it did not take long for manufacturers to realise these products were not going to drive sales. Having to use special glasses to see stereo images did not help either. What we really want is an image that conveys depth properly, through holographics.
According to Arseniy Kuznetsov, a photonics expert and pioneer in the development of nanoantennas, a display that brings holographics to smartphones is on its way. “People have been dreaming about this and talking about it for a long time,” he says. “We know this because we see it in science-fiction movies. We have wanted to communicate in 3D rather than use a flat screen for some time now.”
We will see this within 10 years, not least...