Holographic Minecraft First Look

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Adinnieken said:

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

[ ˈhäləˌgram, ˈhōlə- ]  

NOUN

noun: hologram · plural noun: holograms

a three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source.
• a photograph of an interference pattern that, when suitably illuminated, produces a three-dimensional image.

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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.

Actually having read a bit more it seems like they are using holographic waveguide optics, or something similar. So I take it back, it seems likely that they are using holograhic technology.