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Engineers build a hologram you can touch: Here’s how it works

In Technology
April 13, 2025

For the first time, a team of engineers from the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) have created a hologram you can interact with using your hands. “What we see in films and call holograms are typically volumetric displays. These are the graphics that appear in mid-air and can be viewed from various angles without the need for wearing virtual reality glasses”, says Bouzbib, the first author of the paper.

How do these new holograms work?

The new prototype interactable hologram technology comes from the InteVol project, which is led by UPNA and funded by the European Research Council (ERC)