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Finding Genius Podcast

The Promise of 3D Projection Technology—Dr. Daniel Smalley—Smalley Holography

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Despite being otherwise enamored by the intrigue of holography, Dr. Daniel Smalley says that unfortunately the scene in Avengers during which Tony Stark puts his gloved hands into holographic projections would not be possible; holography couldn't allow light to travel through his hands and certainly couldn't bend the light to go around it.  Such imagery could, however, be created by 3D projections and Dr. Smalley, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Brigham Young University, is happy to tell us how.

Listen in to learn more about holography and 3D projection technology, including its potential uses in medicine, aerospace surveillance, and telepresence. Visit his website at  www.smalleyholography.org and the Brigham Young University ElectroHolography Research Group at https://holography.byu.edu.

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Thank you. Hello this is Richard Jacobs with the future tag podcast. I have Daniel Smalley.

1:10.0

He's at Brigham Young University and the physicist in, you know, physicist there in Provo, Utah.

1:15.4

We would be talking about 3D projections

1:17.4

or 3D holograms.

1:19.1

So this would be a pretty cool call.

1:21.0

So Daniel, thank you for coming. Yeah, my pleasure. Yes, I guess as a layperson, I don't really know much about holograms. Like what is a hologram versus a 3D projection and then let's talk about how you're improving it.

1:34.0

Well, I think that the biggest difference is the screen.

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