
In a paper published this week in Nature, Smalley details the method he has developed to do so. The iconic scene includes the line still famous 40 years later: “Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.”īYU electrical and computer engineering professor and holography expert Daniel Smalley has long had a goal to create the same type of 3D image projection. In the original Star Wars film, R2D2 projects an image of Princess Leia in distress.

Video Credits: Producer Julie Walker, Cinematographer Brian Wilcox, Editor Hannah Hansen However, a security camera will not increase an alarm tracker in a response to throwing the Hologram projector into her vision.Beyond holograms: Star Wars-inspired 3D images float in free space His interest point will be a tile into which the Hologram projector was thrown. Throwing the Hologram projector into a vision (either primary or peripheral) of a guard will alert him. If the Hologram projector gets picked up by a guard, an agent can steal it back from the guard. Drones will not pick up the Hologram projector unless they happen to investigate its tile for some other reason, as they cannot hear sound.Īny guard that hears the Hologram projector will become alerted. Once picked up by either an agent or guard, it will be on cooldown for 1 turn and cannot be thrown until that wears off. It can be picked up by both agents and guards on its tile, and guards will only pick it up or care about it if they investigate on its tile (but because it makes noise, human guards usually will investigate its tile if they come in its sound range, unless they see something else before picking it up). The Hologram projector makes noise in a 1.5 tile radius, and therefore will cause all human guards coming onto its tile or any of the eight tiles adjacent (either orthogonally or diagonally) to it to investigate it. The Hologram projector does not provide soft cover on its own tile in any direction.


Unlike most objects that provide soft cover, the object created by Hologram projector allows both agents and guards to move onto its tile (and guards will ignore its existence for pathing purposes). The Hologram projector is a throwable item that when thrown creates an object that provides soft cover to any agent standing next to it.
