Holograms - What Happened To Them?

JupiterKid

Okay, this was something that I was thinking about over the past few days - a musing on the subject of holograms and holography.

Back in the 1980s holograms were this pretty amazing new technology - made possible by lasers and computers to create 3 dimensional images. They were all the rage at the time and on the cover of magazines, a new fangled security feature on credit cards etc. I remember (now really showing my age lol 😁) on an episode of Tomorrows World watching about the brave new world of holography and how it would transform television, entertainment and beyond.

Well...what happened? I know that some music artists that have sadly passed now have these hologram “live” shows, but are they any good? Are holograms now being put to use in ways I’m not aware of? 🤔

Please enlighten me! 🤓🤓😊

Boscoirl

Tupac will show you tomorrow night.

riclad

Abba are making 3d holograms of all their songs ,so fans can go to a concert and see them perform in 3d in specially designed venues, like actors are recorded in 3d video to be used in video games.we have 4k tv and games and VR headsets .no one makes 3d tvs anymore as the public dont want to wear glass,s at home just to watch tv.Sometimes tech fades away as the public lost interest or it does not appeal to the average user or is too hard to use Also old holograms did not look great, like old tv programs recorded in 480 p.tech advances bit by bit , the first smartphones look primitive compared with a modern smartphone that you can buy for 200 euro.

of course when cds came out we were told they would last forever ,now we know the data fades away due to exposure to light after a certain time .companys are working now on 8k tvs .

Hangdogroad

I recall circa 1990 a cousin sending a letter from Japan where she was teaching English and the stamp was a hologram picture of herself taken in a photo booth. I remember thinking at the time it was like something out of science fiction.

fryup

'help me obi wan kanobi you're my only hope'

Oafley Jones

Still around. For example: Anyone who’s used Google’s Starline has said it’s ridiculously impressive. As if the other person was in the room with you.