Holography is considered as one of the most remarkable discoveries in modern times. Nevertheless for its first decades it seems to be getting forgotten.

Originally stepped up back at the end of the 1940s to improve electron microscopy, it can not fulfill this function and the wish of its discoverer hungarian-british physicist Dennis Gábor. Due to sources of pure coherent light, which are indispensable for optical holography, being not yet available, not even Gábor himself can locate a field of application for this phenomenon. He can neither recognize at that point of time the meaning and the potential of his discovery and with it the influence this new medium would have on our daily lives one day. Nor can he imagine the plenty of phantasms emerging from this phenomenen. Phantasms, which seem to be mostly one step ahead of applied holography.

With the discovery of laser light at the beginning of the 1960s, for the first time ever it becomes possible to record and reconstruct a real three-dimensional image of an object. What once simply starts as a little rainbow coloured picture of a toy train, today finds its applications in a vast variety of different optical and acoustical fields.

It is as remarkable as the phenomenon of holography itself, that it could never prevail as a popular medium like movie, TV, radio, the internet, print media, etc. Especially when keeping in mind all the phantasmatic stories which emerge from this medium. A lot of dreams, hopes and promises that holography never made by itself, but some of them is trying to keep.

blog.holographie.eu accompanies my scientific work on holography, which would like to give holography an attention, that elsewhere is mostly refused to it. It is of course initially interested in based techniques and technologies of holography and how it works. Moreover it is also interested in these upcoming phantasms and their stories arising from possible abilities of holography. Especially against the backdrop of holography seems to be reaching a point, where its possibilities and abilities catch phantasms.

This blog would like to serve as a sketch book for unprotected ideas, of which some maybe become expanded, while others are not haunted any further, but wants to be told and should not be unmentioned forgotten.


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2010-07-18

Westworld / Futureworld: Holo Chess

In 1973 Sci-Fi movie Westworld comes on-screen - as first movie directing of bestseller author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park). It is about holiday theme park DELOS which promises to give the illusion of spending ones vacation in a real western, medieval or roman world. These three areas are exact replicas of the particular ages. With android actors. Visitors can do whatever they want to without the fear of getting harmed - sexual intercourse and even murder. But one day the robots get sick and start attacking guests.



Westworld (1973)

Ten years after the first viewable three-dimensional hologram being generated, the imagination of a virtual-reality does not include a holographic imitation of the real world. The virtual-reality consists of physical buildings with physical robots, that have to be repaired when shot by one of the visitors.



Westworld (1973)

Three years later comes sequel Futureworld - same year as Logan's Run is out. After the catastrophe caused by robot attacks Westworld is closed and substituted by a futuristic virtual world. News reporter Chuck Browning and TV presenter Tracy Ballard are invited by Head of DELOS Dr. Duffy to report about the reopening. After some investigations they find out Dr. Duffy killing important personalities and substitutes them by self-bred doppelgänger to attain world power.

Only in the second part of Sci-Fi double Westworld/Futureworld holography is given a minor role - as holo chess.



Futureworld (1976)

Holo chess in this scene is not recognizable as a synthetic generated holographic board game. For Dr. Duffy would not have mentioned, spectators wouldn't know. Of cause he is not right. A hologram is not an optical illusion. A hologram is an exact reconstruction of a lightwave pattern reflected by a real object.

Viewing Westworld and Futureworld it seems that for at least one decade holography can not contribute to virtual-reality. Obviously there isn't yet an imagination of how to use application of holography besides three-dimensional images in art.

Here is a snippet taken from Futurama referring to Futureworld.



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