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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.mac,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: computer-generated holograms (was Re: replacing the desktop metaphor)
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <3660@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 89 01:04:36 GMT
References: <454@blake.acs.washington.edu> <17939@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <3166@sugar.uu.net> <1611@ssc.UUCP> <3637@ttidca.TTI.COM> <35144@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <35144@think.UUCP> barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
}In article <3637@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
}>  I'm not sure it's even
}>theoretically possible, let alone feasible.
}
}Well, it's been done.  A couple of years ago I saw a
}computer-generated hologram on display at the MIT Media Laboratory.
}I believe it was static (i.e. like a photograph), not dynamic (like an
}animated display).  I don't know anything about the technology used to
}produce it.

I was refering to using an LCD as the medium for displaying a hologram.
Other technologies are coming right along.  I think your example is a
system under development for General Motors.

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