(iTers News) – Led by professor Dr. Kim, Seung-Cheol, a research team of Kwangwoon University of Korea has developed a prototype of 3D floating system using 3D projection and hologram technologies.

Often featured in sci-fiction and action thriller movies like “Mission Impossible” starring actor Tom Cruise, the 3D floating system is to create a set of virtual object images in the air to revolutionize the way people interact with machines, allowing users to work with a PC in the virtual space with a stroke of finger touch.  

The floating system by Kwangwoon University has still a long way to go before it gets commercialized as the virtual UI, user interface system, but can be put to immediate use for outdoor billboard advertising applications, if it can be further miniaturized.

Coming complete with a set of image source devices and lenses, the 3D floating system’s working theory is straightforward.  The image source device hidden on the top, or bottom of the system, which can be a projector or iPhone, first shoot object images on the wall or ceiling, and its built-in lens reflect them to float virtual images in the air.