The concept of interactive holograms has long been a staple of science fiction stories, but a team of Meta engineers has brought the concept closer to reality with a new demonstration.
Do you remember that bit in the firstIron Manmovie, when Tony Stark is working on his suit and uses a hologram to create an exploded view, then just picks up and throws away any bits he doesn’t want to keep? Well, a team of VR engineers at Meta has created an app that does the same thing.
The team created a VR app called CADDY for theMeta Questto try to make modern tech catch up with what is depicted in movies. The demo shows a room inside VR with a floatingMeta Quest 3headset. The user demonstrating the app makes a simple two-handed gesture and the headset pulls apart into an exploded view, with every individual component on display.
A tool for learning and training
The user then starts picking up individual components of the headset, moving them around, and making them bigger so all the details of the screw holes, clips, and electronics are visible. Then, with another gesture, theheadsetmagically reassembles itself, the components that had been moved around twisting and turning in the air to realign for assembly.
This is such a sick little demoIt’s a meta quest app called CADDYMade by a team of hardware engineers at Meta interested in seeing the state of hardware interaction catch up with the moviespic.twitter.com/Fg50eGZxon
The video was shared onTwitter/XandReddit, where replies commented on how cool the demo was. Others mentioned that an app of this type could be invaluable for teaching and training. Twitter user Jordan Rothstein said: “This is a super exciting app! applications like this are going to revolutionize learning. Using this in a mechanical engineering class would be awesome to truly understand different machinery. Imagine if you need to replace a part in your vehicle, you could practice first.”
VR and AR have already seen wide use in training applications, and apps such as CADDY could carry the concept even further.
Rebecca Hills-Duty was a Tech Writer on Dexerto’s UK Team, specializing in PC components, VR, AMD, Nvidia and Intel. She has previously written for UploadVR and The Escapist, hosts a weekly show on RadioSEGA and has an obsession with retro gaming.
