Question: Which of the following institute have developed ‘HoloFlex’ world’s first holographic flexible smartphone?
(a) Queen’s University
(b) Harvard University
(c) Stanford University
(d) Cambridge University
Ans (a)
Related facts:
- On 5 May 2016 researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University of Canada have developed ‘HoloFlex’ the world’s first holographic flexible smartphone.
- The phone is capable of rendering 3D images with motion parallax and stereoscopy to multiple simultaneous users without head tracking or glasses.
- It features a 1920×1080 full high-definition Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (FOLED) touchscreen display.
- Images are rendered into 12-pixel wide circular blocks rendering the full view of the 3D object from a particular viewpoint.
HoloFlex is equipped with a bend sensor. - The resulting 160 x 104 resolution image allows users to inspect a 3D object from any angle simply by rotating the phone.
- HoloFlex is powered by a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and 2 GB of memory.
- It runs on Android 5.1 and includes an Adreno 430 GPU supporting OpenGL 3.1.
- Researchers unveiled HoloFlex in San Jose, California at the top conference in Human-Computer Interaction, ACM CHI 2016, on 9 May 2016.
- The Human Media Lab (HML) at Queen’s University is one of Canada’s premier Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) laboratories.
- This research was support by Immersion Canada Inc. and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Reference:
http://www.hml.queensu.ca/blog/holoflex
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/holoflex-a-flexible-smartphone-with-a-holographic-display