Apple Could Be Working on 'Spatial iPhone' with Holographic Display
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Somewhere between science fiction and your next smartphone upgrade, Samsung is quietly working on something remarkable. The company is reportedly developing a holographic display, codenamed "H1," that uses microscopic structures to bend light toward your eyes, creating the illusion of depth without special glasses.
The technology, which pairs eye-tracking with something called diffractive beam-steering, could even let users tilt their phone to see around objects in a video. Samsung's research arm has been publishing academic work on slim-panel holography since 2020, suggesting this isn't just a dream.
The twist? Supply chain rumors point toward an Apple "Spatial iPhone" potentially using this display. Apple SVP John Ternus recently called combining the digital and physical world an "inevitability," describing spatial computing as being in the "early innings."
Don't hold your breath, though. The project remains in early R&D, with holographic smartphones broadly estimated to arrive around 2030.
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