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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I totally blocked from my memory the very brief period when holograms were a thing, and then no one ever spoke of them again. Even Tupac performed "live" via hologram iirc

Such a silly moment in time. Pretty remarkable though how accurately The Empire Strikes Back predicted holograms to look way back in 1980. Pretty much exactly how these things looked.

[–] Willy 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure holograms existed when Star Wars was made. Probably different styles, like projected on glass panes, but I’m not sure what cnn was using.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I honestly did not know they even had such a thing! That's pretty neat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I totally blocked from my memory the very brief period when holograms were a thing

Yeah, I think some corner of my brain I knew this was exactly the kind of thing that would make us go wtf after some time had passed.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 11 months ago

They come and go.

Frank Zappa, "Bobby Brown" - "A real hologram! Well, not a real hologram, but almost a real hologram."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

How incredibly lame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It felt like cosmic justice when he was on celebrity jeopardy. He didn't know a damn thing, which was true to my idea of him.