FAQs
About Holograms
Hologram makers are often asked to make an image float in the middle of a room or cinema. They are also asked to make holograms of people walking around a room or holograms of herds of animals running toward the viewer (life size). This is simply not possible. Current cinematic3D projection techniques do not use any holography.
Those who are familiar with the Star Wars movies and other science fiction films where the term hologram is used, often confuse science fiction with reality. Unfortunately, no one has found a way of projecting a fully three-dimensional image into space, remotely from the projection device. Volumetric displays may use a moving vortex to give the illusion of depth, but this is not holographic.
Holograms hold vast amounts of information. Even in the simplest hologram, there is many times more information than in, for example, a photograph. Computers do not have the power to process the data contained within even a simple hologram. Another misconception is that 3D TV systems use holography. Sometimes you hear of holographic projection screens. These are conventional projection screens made using a partly holographic process. They are not as the term suggests, ways of projecting holograms.
