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How to turn your iPhone into a hologram projector

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You can now give iPhone holographic powers.
You can now give iPhone holographic powers.
Photo: Bakers Tuts/YouTube

We’re going to be waiting a few years (or decades?) before Apple gets around to adding holographic displays to the iPhone, but did you know there’s actually a wicked-simple trick that lets you turn your iPhone into a hologram machine?

This isn’t the work of crazy science fiction. It’s based on the same type of tech that resurrected Tupac for a 2012 Coachella appearance. Simply using some household items, you can make holograms for your iPhone too.

Learn how to do it below:

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7 responses to “How to turn your iPhone into a hologram projector”

  1. Lucus Bendzsa says:

    Oh My Gosh! THIS WORKS!!!!

  2. Mark says:

    Please learn a little science. This is not a hologram. It is a modern day version of something called Pepper’s Ghost.

  3. Andrii Burka says:

    holo ? are you ?

  4. Andrii Burka says:

    first pic is more perspective :D

  5. Robert Capo says:

    What’s the app that he is using called the one with the jellyfish

  6. Matouš Petrus says:

    And app?

  7. ifbphotography says:

    instead of a four sided screen, I wonder what it would look like if you used a cone with the bottom sliced off.

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