How to create a 3D hologram using your smartphone

TORONTO – YouTube is known as a hot spot for cool do-it-yourself videos – but the latest DIY video to go viral is guaranteed to give you a wicked party trick.

Over the weekend, British YouTuber and tech reviewer “Mrwhosetheboss” posted a tutorial on how to turn your smartphone into a 3D hologram using an old CD case.  The video has garnered over 3 million views since.

Using a simple template, you use a knife to cut out each side of the projector from the CD case. After cutting out each side, you would then tape them together to form the projector.

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From there, simply load up a YouTube video designed for hologram projectors and place your homemade creation on top of your phone.

The projector is essentially a DIY-version of the Holho Smart hologram projector, which retails for about CAD$80.

This isn’t the first YouTube tutorial showing how to make an at-home hologram projector. In April, YouTube page “American Hacker” uploaded a video a nearly identical tutorial using an old CD case.