Microsoft unveils 'HoloLens' holographic computing headset

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    muppetrymuppetry Posts: 3,331member
    evilution wrote: »
    kkerst wrote: »
     
    This is not a hologram if you have to put something on your head. It's VR - that's all. A true hologram is what you see in Star Wars. That's not what they showed here. 
    Incorrect. The 1st hologram was created many years before Star Wars was made.
    A true hologram is a 3D image created by a laser on a flat plain.

    Even the holograms depicted in Star Wars were 3 dimensional images projected on a 1 dimensional plain.
    Same as the holograms created today by projecting a fake 3D image into a mist to create an apparent floating image, an image that moves in relation to the watcher to give the impression of 3 dimensions.

    There isn't much difference between AR, VR and holograms. So, this headset projecting a faked 3D image onto a flat plain is a hologram.

    It's not projecting a 3D image onto a plane - it's projecting two stereographic 2D images (one for each eye) that change with perspective. So no, it's not a hologram.
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