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Holographic Motion Pictures and Video

For instance, the pictures on the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive. … The chessmen were walking about, two by two!

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

Before discussing holography videos and motion pictures, let’s ask a simple question: What properties can a holographic movie possess that a 3D TV image can’t? For one thing, none of the available autostereoscopic lenticular or parallax-barrier displays can reproduce a realistic 3D image of a deep 3D scene [1], and the stereoscopic images perceived through polarizing glasses don’t perfectly separate the left and the right eye image. Both of these result in visual fatigue. But there is a more important problem that may prevent stereoscopic presentations ...

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