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Name: Alex W.
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Age: 20s
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There used to be an arcade game that utilized a literal hologram. A cowboy figure would stand in literal air, and shoot zombies or something. I saw on the discovery channel how it worked: the image was bounced off a curved mirror in such a way that the light entering each of my eyes would be at a different angle. Can I hope to see a literal 3D TV based on this technology in the next decade?


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Does not sound like a hologram to me. The essential feature of a hologram is diffraction.

Tim Mooney


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