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Maybe this is the wrong definition but I read “true hologram” to mean a 3D image made of light, this looks more like one of those images that used to be on the cover of Guinness World Records.

Edit: I see OP is the founder and this is a smaller project. Looks really cool and sorry if that sounded negative! Just not what I expected from the title.

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Each hogel is actually a real laser-encoded holograms. So trying to make the distinction between lenticulars, Pepper's Ghost, etc. that use the name "hologram", but are not.

This hogel approach to recording the hologram in segments allows of capturing people, computer graphics, and much more than analog holograms that can only capture inanimate object. However our LitiHolo film can do analog holograms as well, if interested.

"3d image made of light" is decidedly not what a real hologram is. Have a look at the Wikipedia page, real holograms are so much cooler!

I could not have said it better. Real holograms also still have a lot of development yet to come and improvements that can be made, whereas many other 3D techniques out there are limited quite significantly, or are quite old and don't have the head room to improve much.

I believe you are thinking about a light field display if you want the Star Wars esque living 3d projections of light.

I guess holograms could be considered a sub-set of light field displays, but not all light field displays are holograms.

Yeah I imagine true holograms as dynamic as well, not just a static image.

The different perspective images can encode a certain amount of movement, like the one of the girl blowing a kiss.

We see this as the building blocks for eventual holograms with full-motion. There has been a lot of research and ideas in that area, but still needs development.

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