


“We refer to this colloquially as the Princess Leia project,” Smalley said. In a paper published this week in Nature, Smalley details the method he has developed to do so. The iconic scene includes the line still famous 40 years later: “Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.”īYU electrical and computer engineering professor and holography expert Daniel Smalley has long had a goal to create the same type of 3D image projection. In the original Star Wars film, R2D2 projects an image of Princess Leia in distress. Video Credits: Producer Julie Walker, Cinematographer Brian Wilcox, Editor Hannah Hansen

Beyond holograms: Star Wars-inspired 3D images float in free space
