Smojo "HoloFlex" which operates by bending Gunyaguna with holographic support

The electronic paper display which can be bent freely was made into a smartphone coverFlexCaseIn order to make existing smartphones more convenient, research is being carried out by various organizations. Canada'sQueen's UniversityIt is inHuman Media Lab(HML) developed a flexible holographic smartphone "HoloFlex" is also a very interesting mysterious terminal showing the new possibilities of smart phones.

HoloFlex: Holographic, Flexible Smartphone Projects Princess Leia into the Palm of Your Hand - Human Media Lab
http://www.hml.queensu.ca/blog/holoflex

You can tell what kind of terminal is the smartphone "HoloFlex" which multiplied the unknown element of holographic & flexible by seeing the following movie.

HoloFlex: Holographic, flexible smartphone projects princess Leia into the palm of your hand - YouTube


HoloFlex is a smartphone that can enjoy 3D display without applying head tracking technology or dedicated 3D glasses. 3D display isMotion parallaxIt seems to be realized by applying it, "Dream Roel Vertegaal of HML says," You can watch 3D videos and photos without glasses, "he says.


The display resolution of HoloFlex is 1920 × 1080. It is equipped with a flexible organic LED (FOLED) display, as well as touch operation as well.


HoloFlex's holographic is rendered as a 12 pixel wide block. So the resolution of the display itself is not low, but the holographic image displayed on the screen seems to be a slightly coarse image.


If you tilt the terminal you can see that the picture on the display looks three-dimensional. Furthermore, HoloFlex seems to be able to see images and pictures in 3D even when looking at the display from different viewpoints at the same time. Dr. Vertegaal, one of the developers commented, "By using a depth camera, users will be able to make video calls using holographics, etc."


In addition, HoloFlex has developed "HML developed in the past"ReFlexBecause it carries the same flexion sensor as "It is possible to operate by bending and slim the terminal.

On smartphones, "flat operation" can be performed intuitively by touching the display with fingers, but stereoscopic operation is difficult to perceive intuitively. However, with HoloFlex equipped with flexion sensor, it will be possible to intuitively move the Z axis motion which was troublesome until now by bending the terminal.

For example, to move a triangle in a circled part ... ...


I will bend the HoloFlex barely.


Then move your finger to where you want to place the triangle, stop bending the terminal and place it.


In addition, HoloFlex will do the work of attaching the hand to the 3D teapot.


If you bring your hand to the vicinity of the teapot with your fingers ......


Bend the terminal quickly and move the handle to the back.


I succeeded in attaching a hand to a teapot. HML seems to assume that bending operation is used for input in the Z axis direction. Although you can intuitively operate the X and Y axes by touching the display so far, you must rotate the object in the Z axis direction operation, which is difficult to do intuitively There was. However, if the bending operation can be performed with the smartphone, the operation in the Z axis direction can be performed more intuitively by bending the terminal.


In addition, playing games like Holly Flex like Angry Bird.


It is made possible to bend the terminal by "bending a sling shot that pulls a bird" at Angry Bird ....


When I release the bending of the terminal easily ...


A bird will fly away.



The processor used for the terminal is 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, the installed memory is 2 GB, the adopted OS is Android 5.1, the GPU is Adreno 430, and OpenGL 3.1 is also supported.

Note that HML will be held in California on May 9, 2016CHI 2016We are planning to make an announcement on HoloFlex at.