Integrated Systems Europe 2014 - HoloCube

A lot of companies demonstrating their solutions for holography displays. For now still a gimick for commercial purposes, but who knows, perhaps in the near future similar 'displays' could be used in clinical practice.

Here an example from a company called HoloCube.

Virtual Holography for Medical 3D imaging?

Check out the coverage on the diagnostic imaging website on the topic of virtual holography.

They have an article on the development of two companies called Echopixel Technologies and Infinite Z that are attempting to join forces to develop these kind of displays in order to provide the 'real 3D experience'.

Infinite Z already is distributing holographic devices for mechanical engineering as can be seen from their website and the movie displayed below of a product called zSpace.

Holodesk by Microsoft - real interaction with 3D objects

They are just showing this now with some balls and cubes, but Microsoft really made the next step with their Holodesk as demonstrated in the youtube movie shown below.

In my opinion these kind of technologies should also be explored for the medical field. How about serious gaming using a system like this to practice surgery for example.. Or just using it to display patient data for diagnosis and follow-up. It's technologies like this that could really change the way we interact with data and information nowadays and to get away from the standard desktop.