Feng-Hsiung Hsu, author of “Behind Deep Blue,” which told the story of how world chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by the IBM computer known as Deep Blue, says he had been planning at IBM to “create something a hundred to a thousand faster and capable of beating” Garry Kasparov, with 100 to 1 time odds, before IBM cancelled the project.

Hsu, now a senior manager and researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, is planning to create “a new type of 3D display that potentially can allow a theater-sized audience to experience something similar to a hologram, without wearing glasses.”