Meet HoloFlex, world's first holographic flexible smartphone

A smartphone that lets you interact with 3D videos and images without having to use any headgear or glasses sounds impossible, but scientists claim to have developed the first holographic flexible smartphone, and have named it HoloFlex.

The phone is capable of rendering 3D images with motion parallax and stereoscopy to multiple simultaneous users and that too without head or eyewear, thus offering a completely new way of interacting using with your smartphone.

Not only this, it also allows for glasses-free interactions with 3D video and images without burdening the user, as stated by Roel Vertegaal, from Queen's University in Canada.

Featuring a 1920x1080 full HD Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (FOLED) touchscreen display, it renders images into 12-pixel wide circular blocks, thus making the full view of the 3D object from a particular viewpoint.

Also, its bend sensor allows one to bend the phone as a means of moving objects along the z-axis of the display and due to its wide view angle 3D model can simultaneously be examined by multiple users and that too from different points of view.

Talking of holographic gaming, it would enable one to bend the side of the display to pull the elastic rubber band that propels the bird, in the popular game Angry Birds. When the bird flies across the screen, the holographic display would make it ‘literally’ pop out of the screen in 3D.

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