IBM Predicts Mobile Phones with Holograms

"In five years, cell phones will be able to produce holograms of friends and colleagues talking and moving in real time, IBM researchers say."

"In the mock-up photo provided by IBM, 3D video technology is used to create a hologram on a speakerphone."We see 3D [video] technology moving into the cell phone, which will have the ability to transmit information off the cell phone to create a 3D hologram, projecting the hologram on any surface in life size," said Paul Bloom, IBM's CTO for telecommunications research, in a recent interview."

"With a cell phone hologram, a user would be able to walk next to a hologram of a friend, or a worker could project an enlarged 3D image of a product needing repair to walk inside it and detect problems, Bloom said. "The repair person could go inside the device instead of looking it up in a manual," he said. "It has lots of implications.""