Adinnieken on 21 January 2015
| binary solo said: If in marketing they persist in calling it an holographic image, then yes that would be false advertising. Of course the product name "HoloLens" is a non-word that only implies holograms. So that isn't false advertising |
hologram
NOUN
noun: hologram · plural noun: holograms
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a photograph of an interference pattern that, when suitably illuminated, produces a three-dimensional image.
a three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source.
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Since we needed a definition.
The question is, how do the lenses on the HoloLens device work? Are they a pass-thru LCD, or something different. Based on previously published patents, Microsoft worked out a way to send beams of light down into a lens. If this is the technology they're using with the HoloLens device, and it's forming three-dimensional images, which they appear to be, then it's a hologram and by extension holographic.
The question is, how do the lenses on the HoloLens device work? Are they a pass-thru LCD, or something different. Based on previously published patents, Microsoft worked out a way to send beams of light down into a lens. If this is the technology they're using with the HoloLens device, and it's forming three-dimensional images, which they appear to be, then it's a hologram and by extension holographic.
