3D

Thanks to Samsung's prototype hologram device, the fairy appears to be hovering in the hand – but in actuality she's displayed on the screen in the background

Home Entertainment

Samsung's hologram prototype sports 4K visuals and wide viewing angle

Sci-fi has been promising holograms for decades, but they always feel out of reach. Now Samsung has made strides towards realistic holograms, with a prototype thin-panel device that can display 3D images in 4K resolution with a wide viewing angle.

A new kind of video display, allowing perspective-shifting 3D content viewing without the need for 3D glasses

Computers

Sony's Spatial Reality Display: Responsive, no-glasses 3D on your desk

Sony has debuted a new kind of 3D monitor with its Spatial Reality Display, which tracks your eyes and shows a different dynamically-generated image for each eye to give you a small, single-viewer window into a three-dimensional world.

The 14 meter wide Onyx Cinema LED screen at the Capital Cinema in Beijing, China

Home Entertainment

Samsung installs 46 ft 3D movie screen in Beijing's Capital Cinema

The Capital Cinema in Beijing's Xicheng district has been fitted out with a new 3D-ready Onyx Cinema LED screen – and it's 1.4 times wider than those which have come before.

A 3D-printed piece of graphene aerogel, that's so light it can balance on top of a strawberry blossom

Materials

New 3D printing process paints graphene aerogel in far finer detail

Graphene is famous as a two-dimensional material, but to really make the most of the stuff we need to coax it back into 3D forms. Now researchers from Virginia Tech have developed a new way to 3D print graphene aerogels with a far higher resolution than previously possible.

The Vuze XR has two modes: one for recording 360° video and a VR mode (shown) for capturing 180° 3D footage

Photography

With the Vuze XR, you can record two kinds of immersive footage with one camera

The Vuze XR camera from HumanEyes Technologies not only allows social media sharers, life loggers and travelers to capture memories in all-around 360° goodness, but can also transform into a 3D camera at the touch of a button.

Using CERN technology, Mars Bioimaging has created the first 3D, color X-ray images of the human body

Medical

CERN chip enables first 3D color X-ray images of the human body

Medical X-ray scans have long been stuck in the black-and-white era. Now Mars Bioimaging has developed a bioimaging scanner that can produce full color, three dimensional images of bones, lipids, and soft tissue, thanks to a sensor chip developed at CERN for use in the Large Hadron Collider.

This new projection mapping system can track movements and give the impression of an object reflecting light

Electronics

The light stuff: High speed projection mapping taken to the next mind-blowing level

Researchers have made an incredible advance in the field of real-time projection mapping, creating a new system that can simulate the way light reflects off a nonexistent 3D structure. The result is stunningly realistic dynamic projection that heralds a new generation of trippy performance art.

Lead researchers Dr Palmer, Dr Flynn and Dr Martin with 3D cancer tissue biopsy, an online sample made possible by The Virtual Biobank

Medical

Virtual Biobank revolutionizes access to human cancer tissues

In a move that could revolutionize the development of new cancer treatments, researchers from the University of Newcastle and the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) have created the world's first virtual platform to host 3D copies of human cancer tissues.

By putting tiny 3D glasses onto praying mantises, researchers have discovered a unique, previously unknown type of 3D vision that's based on movement

Science

Tiny glasses reveal praying mantises have a different kind of 3D vision

By putting tiny 3D glasses on the bugs, researchers at Newcastle University have found that praying mantises possess a unique, previously unknown type of 3D vision that's based on movement.

Samsung's 3D Cinema LED screen has debuted at ISE 2018 in Amsterdam

Home Entertainment

Samsung's massive Cinema LED screen goes 3D

Less than a year ago, Samsung unveiled a cinema-sized LED screen capable of 4K resolution, and followed this in July with its first commercial installation at a theater in Seoul, South Korea. Now the company has revealed a 3D version at the Integrated Systems Europe 2018 expo in Amsterdam.

Consisting of a $10 microchip this device makes existing 2D ultrasound devices capable of producing 3D images

Medical

Nintendo Wii inspires system that takes 2D ultrasounds into the third dimension

Emergency physician Joshua Broder, with the help of a team from Duke University and Stanford University, has created a clip on device that contains a simple $10 microchip that can turn 2D ultrasound images into more detailed 3D versions that rival the quality of imaging from MRI or CT scans.

A team of astrophysicists have put forward the theory that knots of energy formed just after the Big Bang are responsible for why our universe exists in three dimensions

Physics

Why is our universe three dimensional? Cosmic knots could untangle the mystery

Next time you’re untangling your earbuds, remember that knots may have played a crucial part in kickstarting our universe, and without them we wouldn’t live in 3D. That’s the strange story pitched by physicists in a new paper, to help plug a few plot holes in the origin story of the universe.