Here's the YouTube link with the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=AoWi10YVmfE

Someday we may have the displays we see in the movies at this rate.

beside the images functionality, i wonder whether it can be used to precisely "herd" say a cloud of deuterium ions to get something like microfusion

A similar thing does exist and is actively used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers