Researchers at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, have developed a smartphone that is flexible and works with a holographic screen. The smartphone named “HoloFlex ‘will be shown Monday, May 9th at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors (ACMCHI) in California.
The Canadians arrived last February with all the reflex, a bendable smartphone with a 720p flexible OLED display from LG. The HoloFlex uses a flexible OLED (foled) with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. Because the screen can be bent can be imaged in 3D objects without the use of glasses. The screen can be bent in order to adjust the depth, and by turning to view are objects from all sides the unit. The images can be moved horizontally or vertically by swiping. A sensor moves the image about the Z-axis, or off to the user of it.
The resolution of the 3D effect is not clear yet. It works by placing images in 12-pixel wide blocks. The light is then distributed through 16,000 fisheye lenses, making the 3D image is visible. The resolution is therefore “only” 160 x 104 pixels.
According to Roel Vertegaal, a professor of the Human Media Laboratory, the HoloFlex offers a new way to communicate. Through the use of a depth camera users can keep holographic video conference with each other. The screen can bend users literally “pop” off the screen and even look at each other, their faces correctly rendered from any angle towards each viewer.
The HoloFlex is currently equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 1.5 GHz, 2GB RAM and Android 5.1. The graphics is provided by an Adreno 430 with OpenGL 3.1.
It is not known if the researchers want to bring HoloFlex on the market.
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