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Shawn Frayne

Holograms are coming to the Internet

99.9999999% of all the stuff made in 3D has only ever been displayed in 2D. That’s completely insane. So... imagine a parallel universe in which every movie ever made had been shot in color, but was only ever shown in black and white. It’s like that with

Introducing Looking Glass Portrait. Your first personal holographic display.

“If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we’re basically headed towards holograms.” Martin Scorsese Looking Glass Portrait is available here for $199 until Dec 6th. When I was in high school, my dad and I built a holographic studio in my bedroom. I scrawled “DANGER! LASER

The Memory Machines

2020 will be remembered as the year that volumetric & light field recording technologies became deeply integrated with holographic displays. This combination will redefine how we relive our memories and connect with one another for decades to come. About a year and a half ago, I hurriedly wrote this note

Colossal Holograms

The world’s first large-format 8K holographic display is here, and it’s unlike anything that’s come before. I’ve dreamed of holograms ever since I was 8 years old. I was so obsessed that in high school my dad helped me build an optics table at the foot

Holograms VR AR and the Future of Reality

After decades of false starts, holographic displays are finally coming to market. These new holographic devices go by many names — holographic interfaces, light field displays, superstereoscopic displays, volumetric displays — but as a group they are fundamentally different than the VR and AR systems you’ve heard about before, simply and