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Re: Holography?!

Absolutely correct.

Just because an image "looks 3D" or appears ot "float in the air" does NOT repeat NOT make it a hologram.

Stop misusing a term which has a very definitive meaning.

These are NOT holograms any more than those "Tupac" things were which by the way were video versions of the Victorian "Pepper's Ghost" illusion.

East way to tell...

Blank off the display for one eye. Then using the other eye, holding the headset in your hand (better still on tripod so it doesn't move), move your head around to change the viewing position of your eye in relation to the single eye display of the headset - particular viewing from a position to the left and right of the image.

For it to stand ANY chance of it being a hologram, the view your single eye sees from the left should be distinclty different from the view it sees from the right IN THE SAME IMAGE i.e. there shouold be parallax just by moving where view it form WITHOUT moving the headset.

That is the whole point of visual holograms and basis of the name hologram.

One image contains MANY points of view simultaneously. You change which you see by changing WHERE you view it from. NOT by changing the image.

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