A better image all round

A Hungarian holographic company has teamed up with

to develop a new generation of 3D display technologies giving an unprecedented degree of resolution and clarity, as well as a much wider field of view.

Budapest-based Holografika is developing a holographic display that overcomes many of the limitations of current displays by reconstructing 3D images that can be viewed by a number of people from a wide field of view.

The €3m (£2m), EU-funded Holovision project will allow viewers to see the image from any number of different directions without losing fidelity of picture.

Researchers at BAE Systems' Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) in Bristol are validating early data from the project's design stage before the construction of a working prototype begins in earnest this year.

BAE Systems subsidiary Insyte is also collaborating on the project, designing software prototypes for viewing images of terrain that can make the most of a high-resolution 3D display.