Watch: Lucasfilm and Magic Leap are Teaming to Make Crazy 'Star Wars' Holograms a Reality

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It's hard to watch Star Wars and not want to reach into the screen and pull things from its science fantasy world into our own. How cool would it be to have a lightsaber? Or a service droid? Or a best friend who was a wookie? Or, ya' know, a spaceship? One, seemingly small thing we've all been dreaming of from Star Wars is on the verge of becoming a reality: holograms. Well, kind of. Technically speaking, that image you see of C-3PO and R2-D2 in a living room isn't a hologram in the traditional sense. It's more like a piece of virtual reality that is filtered digitally to your eyeballs so as to look like it's in the real world. It does require a special set of goggles to see, but it's not like other VR systems. The technology comes from a company...
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