MIT pioneers real time 3D VR ‘holograms’

MIT researchers have pioneered a new method to create ‘holograms’ for VR, 3D printing and medical imaging, capable of running on a smartphone.

The new method, called tensor holography, using a deep learning-based method to run on a laptop and generate real-time ‘holograms’.

The work was supported by Sony, with the team developing a convolutional neural network, using a chain of trainable tensors to mimic how humans process visual information, building a custom database of 4,000 computer-generated images, including colour and depth information for each pixel with a corresponding hologram.

The tensor ‘holography’ can craft holograms from images with depth information, provided by computer-generated images and can be calculated from a multicamera setup or LiDAR sensor, requiring less than 1 MB of memory.

Wojciech Matusik, advisor and co-author of the study, MIT, commented: “It’s a considerable leap that could completely change people’s attitudes toward holography. “We feel like neural networks were born for this task.”

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