New holograms will be gracing Auckland International Airport to try educate travellers about biosecurity.
A Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) trial will give visitors arriving from overseas a 3D display of biosecurity risk items and explain why they're not wanted in New Zealand.
"This is an experiment to test if new technology can be used as a communications tool to reach the public more effectively than our current static signage at the airport," said Brett Hickman, manager of detection technology for MPI.
The display will tell a virtual narrative first focusing on fruit carried inside luggage, then displaying a hitchhiking fruit fly - and the damage it could do to an orchard and the fruit sector.
![Detail of the holographic fruit fly. Photo / MPI](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/37Z7HHQICV6J7KDUC5OULG72UU.jpg?auth=db6a8fca1075d82eec6a0ba51f860e0f3a66b4c1e0dd523326bdbd84e7257248&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)