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Re:A multi-user hologram table by vbuwivbiu on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:57AM (#15090127)
Is it too late to rename these various stereoscopic systems to something other than 'holograms' ? Because they're not holograms.

Holograms work by interference and have the property that when cut into pieces each piece is a (dimmer and narrower FOV) copy of the whole.

Stereoscopic systems could be called 'stereograms' ?

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Re:A multi-user hologram table by throwaway2016a on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:01AM (#15090157)
The new startup marketting language...

Holograms = Augmented Reality

Hover Board = Self balancing wheeled vehicle

AI = algorithms, sometimes big data, rarely machine learning or neural networks

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Re:A multi-user hologram table by pavlov on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:30AM (#15090373)
At least in the case of Microsoft Hololens, the name is somewhat justified because the display tech goes beyond stereoscopy and actually projects a light field using waveguides.

Some details on the tech here:

https://forums.hololens.com/discussion/903/how-does-waveguid...

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