One company is planning to launch a system later this year for displaying holograms on smartphones.

The researchers used deep learning to allow for real-time hologram generation.

Training a neural internet typically requires a large, high-quality dataset, which didnt previously exist for 3D holograms.

A young person looking at a hologram projecting from their smartphone.

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The team built a custom database of 4,000 pairs of computer-generated images.

That approach resulted in photorealistic training data.

Next, the algorithm got to work.

Someone looking at an architectural hologram on a smart phone.

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“The challenges are significant,” Ward said.

This can require significant processing power and battery life, which are problems that we solved."