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In the general case, you can make a hologram that looks like anything from any angle (like play a movie as you walk past) - given a particular viewing distance,
by dTal 7y ago
In the general case, you can make a hologram that looks like anything from any angle (like play a movie as you walk past) - given a particular viewing distance, because at a different viewing distances you will see mixtures of different "frames" due to parallax.
I can't offhand reason out what "viewing distance distortion" would do in the specific case of making a 2d image "follow" you (might even cancel out!), but in any case it's not a big deal if the viewing distance is much larger than the hologram size.
Interestingly, there's a traditional optical solution to this problem as well: beer pump logos, which are often displayed behind a very convex lens which partially corrects for parallax distortion.
(Edit: you will not, however, be able to correct for rotation. The hologram can't possibly "know" what orientation your head is in, only where it is.)
- hologram-paul 7y agoDepending on the way the hologram is printed or created, the hologram recreates the full wavefront, so the hologram replays the image without needing to know how your head is oriented. Will need to look up beer pump logos. Interesting.