Holography entails the diffractive reconstruction of the wavefront corresponding to a 3-D scene, and optical holograms are generated using the coherent interference of light scattered from a 3-D scene with that from a second reference beam. Holography, by definition, necessitates scene reconstruction via diffraction. In the case of an electro-holographic display, diffraction patterns corresponding to 3-D scenes are computed and displayed on suitable light modulators to achieve wavefront reconstruction. This technology is still in its infancy, so you probably won't see anything truly holographic in the marketplace for some number of years.
As cool as this demonstration is, it's using a 19th-century technique -- "Pepper's Ghost" -- and cannot correctly be called holographic.
As cool as this demonstration is, it's using a 19th-century technique -- "Pepper's Ghost" -- and cannot correctly be called holographic.
Here's work out of MIT depicting the true state-of-the-art in real-time electroholography: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/video-holography-0124.htm....