---
title: "Holograms Come to Life in the World’s First Interactive Lightfield Display"
description: "The first-ever interactive lightfield display has been unveiled by Looking Glass Holoplayer One. It allows you to interact with the holograms it creates."
date: "2017-11-22"
modified: "2017-11-22"
authors:
  - name: "Chelsea Gohd"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/chelseagohd"
url: "https://futurism.com/holograms-life-worlds-first-interactive-lightfield-display"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
  - "Virtual Reality"
tags:
  - "hologram"
  - "holoplayer one"
  - "lightfield"
  - "looking glass"
---

# Holograms Come to Life in the World’s First Interactive Lightfield Display

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/hp-bg.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="https://lookingglassfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hp-bg.jpg" target="\_blank"\>Looking Glass Factory\</a\>\</em\>*

## Interactive Holograms

Hologram technology has come a long way since Princess Leia delivered a hologram message to Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Within the past few years, holograms have gone from a science fiction fantasy to a tangible technology. From[ tabletop holograms](<https://futurism.com/the-first-truly-applicable-hologram-tech-is-here>) to a ["smart" artificially intelligent (AI) hologram](<https://futurism.com/a-new-artificially-intelligent-hologram-was-just-born>), the field is booming.

[Looking Glass,](<https://lookingglassfactory.com/about/>) a self-described "team of inventors, engineers, game devs, and out-of-work comedians chasing the dream of the hologram," have unveiled the Holoplayer One, [the world's first-ever interactive lightfield display. ](<https://lookingglassfactory.com/>)

The Holoplayer One looks almost like a laptop: it's a compact device that allows you to both create and interact with a 3-dimensional display. It requires no specialized glasses or hardware aside from the device itself.

## Creating in 3D

Other lightfield displays have recently hit the mainstream, and its immediate applications are easy to see — especially within the visual arts field. From graphic design to animation, the ability to physically manipulate a 3-dimensional display could revolutionize how we create and expand technical capabilities in a creative sense.

But beyond art, interactive holograms could prove to play a major role in other fields as well. In the medical sector, physicians could potentially use this type of technology with advanced imaging, giving them a better and more comprehensive view of the human body.

While lightfield displays are certainly not brand new, the ability to interact with a hologram truly changes the potential of this emerging technological field.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/chelsea_gohd>)