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Business Daily: Tricking the brain – are holograms the future?

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Tricking the brain – are holograms the future?

03/01/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Tricking the brain – are holograms the future?

These endlessly flexible 3D images are being used in huge variety of sectors

These endlessly flexible 3D images are used in entertainment, medicine, education, design, defence and more.

The use of these endlessly flexible 3D images is increasing rapidly.  

Not just in entertainment, but in medicine, education, design, defence and more.

Holograms trick the brain into seeing something in 3D when it’s really just a projection, allowing us to feel immersed in something – whether it’s an atom, or a cityscape. 

We talk to companies developing this fast advancing technology and ask – will we be living in a holographic future?

Produced and presented by Matthew Kenyon

(Image: A citizen watches a hologram of the artwork 'A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains' during a digital art exhibition at an art museum on March 11, 2023 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province of China. Credit: Getty Images)

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