If you want to see a hologram, you don't have to look much farther than your wallet. But the most impressive holograms are large scale and illuminated with lasers or displayed in a darkened room with carefully directed lighting. Learn how a hologram, light and your brain work together make clear, 3-D images.

Hologram technology represents a new era in visual storytelling—bridging art, science, and emotion. From concerts to corporate events, holograms enable audiences to experience performances that transcend time and space. With innovations in motion capture, facial rigging, and digital resurrection, Mimic Productions is pushing the limits of what’s possible, crafting immersive holographic ...

Holography, means of creating a unique photographic image without the use of a lens. The photographic recording of the image is called a hologram, which appears to be an unrecognizable pattern of stripes and whorls but which—when illuminated by coherent light, as by a laser beam—organizes the light

The hologram does not change the wavelength (color) of light but controls how light is re-directed. There are a number of distinct types of art holograms that can be defined by their optical-geometry and the recording medium.

In the cosmos-as-a-hologram idea, however, it would be the dimension of time that can be holographically encoded. That is, the evolution of the Universe might be a holographic projection. Hawking’s final thoughts on time emerging as a holographic projection are encapsulated in a disc-like image (see diagram, above).