Hologram Industry News

Bergisch Gladbach, 16.01.2008 - Ten years after the first HoloProTM screen was developed and produced in Bergisch Gladbach, the time has now come for HoloProTM4. Pronova present their latest new HoloProTM4 at the Integrated Systems Europe Fair in Amsterdam. The new generation of holographic projection screens was created in the course of many years of research and development cooperation between pronova and the Cologne Technical College (Fachhochschule Köln). “The reduction of holographic optical elements to a diameter of 0.2 mm brings us into dimensions that are smaller than pixels on a computer monitor”, explains Martin Kischkoweit-Lopin, CEO of G+B pronova GmbH. The impressive result of this miniaturisation is an unprecedented richness of detail and a considerable improvement in colour neutrality, homogeneity and brilliance of projection quality. The number of HOEs was also exponentiated: in HoloProTM4, according to pronova, there are more than 200 times as many HOEs as in previous versions.

HoloPro™ is the patented solution for living projections on glass. HoloPro™ stands for “holographic projection screen“.

Sources: www.pronovagmbh.de

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Liti Holographics has developed a revolutionary means of visual image creation via New Generation Holography, for application within the retail signing, merchandising, and point of purchase environments.
Liti Holographics’ revolutionary New Generation Hologram System captures, processes, prints and replicates full color, high-resolution, three-dimensional images. And, unlike any holograms you’ve ever seen before, New Generation Hologram images project off the surface of the film, with up to five seconds of animation and a 120-degree view zone.
Datasource:http://www.litiholographics.com/products/products.htm

Actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones tied the knot in November, 2000, at New York’s Plaza Hotel with guests only allowed in with a hologram-embedded invitation.
Source:http://in.today.reuters.com/news

NEC develops 3D paint for its LaVie notebook giving the top chassis 3D optical effect.
The LaVie G Type L Basic comes standard with “snow white” outer top casing, however customer can customize it with red, blue, or yellow. The special 3D paint produce hologram diamond pattern when surrounded by a magnetic field.
Source:http://www.slashgear.com/nec-sprays-3d-paint-on-its-lavie-laptops-116168.php

A 3-D hologram image of the Queen - the first royal portrait of its kind - has been unveiled.
The image of the unsmiling Queen, by light artist Chris Levine, is tinged in blue light and appears to move as the viewer walks past. It is suspended between two panes of glass and mounted in a darkened room at The Jersey Museum.
In the image the Queen wears a white ermine cape, a string of pearls and the famous Diamond Diadem.
The crown, made for King George IV, was worn by the Queen for her Coronation procession in 1953 and is the one depicted on UK stamps and bank notes.
To create the image, Levine took more than 10,000 images of the monarch during two sittings in the Yellow Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace before selecting the ones for the final hologram. Levine said the Queen was “surprisingly well informed” about modern processes of portrait making.
It cost the Jersey government £150,000 and will be exhibited at The Jersey Museum in St Helier until 23 June before going on permanent display at Mont Orgueil on the island. An identical copy of the holographic light portrait will be exhibited at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from 17 July to 3 October.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3828845.stm

Magnetic disks have a storage density of about 37.5Gb per square inch. A US firm says it has set a commercial data storage record by achieving 515 gigabits (Gb) per square inch. InPhase Technologies says it reached the level using a holographic drive, which has a higher capacity than conventional magnetic storage media. It said the technology could eventually lead to a holographic disc that could hold more than 100 DVD-quality movies.InPhase expects to unveil its first holographic drive later this year, with products of up to 1.6 terabyte coming.
Holograms use a three-dimensional image generated by lasers to store information. The concept has been around for several decades but the optical storage technology has only become feasible in the last few years.
Sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4857306.stm
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Once just a sticker collector’s novelty, holograms are taking on a whole new dimension. These new digital 3-D hologram images may be the key to inventing new cars, designing buildings, and mapping entire cities!
Showing perfect views of every dashboard, every hallway, and every city street, holograms can now be used by police, city planners and car makers.
“The hologram is a more direct way to get exactly what is in the design visualized prior to committing to build the car itself,” Michael Klug, founder of Zebra Imaging in Austin, Texas, tells Ivanhoe.
He says that pre-production saves car makers time and money, savings that trickle down to you. “There’s no question it can save the car companies and the consumers money, and it’s not just money straightaway. It’s also time, which is money as we know.”
Source:� http://www.ivanhoe.com/science/story/2006/05/142a.html