Together with the computation back end, they can make a holographic capture of a scene in under 30 milliseconds. The new camera is a two-part affair: acquisition, and calculation.

Basic drawings that accompany the ideas show security guards roaming around a parked Ford, while another image shows a young boy pointing at what we understand to be virtual guard dogs.

Ford has a far-off vision of one day using holographic technology popularized in sci-fi to create digital representations of cops and guard dogs to deter would-be criminals.

A new camera setup can record three-dimensional movies with a single pixel. Moreover, the technique can obtain images outside the visible spectrum and even through tissues. The Kobe University ...