A Korean scientific initiative composed of more than a dozen companies has introduced a machine that they say can render a 3-dimensional holographic display, according to Engadget.
Remember the 3D holograms from "Star Wars" and other science fiction films and TV shows? Well, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has taken the big leap of bringing that fantasy into reality.
The consortium, composed of about 16 other companies, claims to have created a "tabletop holographic display."
The device is supposedly the first of its kind, allowing its user to view an image in full color and at all angles around it, according to KBS World Radio.
The technology is currently capable of producing a hologram about three inches in size.
There are various other technologies that dabble in the creation of holograms, but it seems like none have come as close to ETRI.
The hologram tech from ETRI diffracts light waves, unlike the imitation 3D holograms and images created in films and television, according to Business Korea.
Other models create a 2D image that hangs in the air, which is not the same as real 3D imaging that creates an image at different angles all around.
