SURGEONS and designers could soon be manipulating 3D moving images floating
in mid-air rather than on computer screens, say engineers at DERA, Britain’s
soon-to-be-privatised defence research lab. They say designers will be able to
extend a car’s bodywork just by waving a stylus, and almost instantly see what
it looks like—or surgeons could twist a brain scan around to locate an
injury.
“We can create a real image floating in 3D space,” says Chris Slinger, head
of holography at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in Malvern,
Worcestershire. Working in a joint venture with the Ford Motor Company, DERA…
