MIT Researchers Enable Real-Time Holographic Displays

Researchers at MIT report in Nature that they developed "tensor holography", a deep-learning method that produces photo-realistic 3D holograms in milliseconds. Using a 4,000-pair training dataset and a compact convolutional neural network under 1 MB, the approach generates holograms on laptops and smartphones and models occlusion and depth accurately. The advance could enable real-time holographic VR, volumetric 3D printing, and improved medical imaging workflows.