hologram-paul

This is our first step in providing the hologram machine itself to make your own holograms, rather than sending off to a service to make one for you. We think having this as a new tool, rather than just a service, will completely change access to hologram technology in the future, similar to what happened with 3D printing.

I appreciate your input as a holographer, and we are hoping to help create a lot more holographers in the future who will have access to their own 3D Hologram Printer.

This is our first step in providing the hologram machine itself to make your own holograms, rather than sending off to a service to make one for you. We think having this as a new tool, rather than just a service, will completely change access to hologram technology in the future, similar to what happened with 3D printing.

I appreciate your input as a holographer, and we are hoping to help create a lot more holographers in the future who will have access to their own 3D Hologram Printer.

Yes, there are definite applications for Holographic Optical Elements in this area. We are hoping that access to a 3D Hologram Printer will make development in this area even more accelerated. Thanks.

Denisyuk is one of the fathers of holography (his hologram technique was one of the first to allow white-light viewable holograms, also called reflection holograms). Along with Gabor, Leith, Upatnieks, and my professor at the MIT Media Lab, Steve Benton.

This is our first step in providing the hologram machine itself to make your own holograms, rather than sending off to a service to make one for you. We think having this as a new tool, rather than just a service, will completely change access to hologram technology in the future, similar to what happened with 3D printing.

I appreciate your input as a holographer, and we are hoping to help create a lot more holographers in the future who will have access to their own 3D Hologram Printer.

Yes, the idea is to make this hologram technology more accessible and affordable, so that it is something you can use on a regular basis, not just a one-off occasionally.

Thanks! Will see how to highlight that better.

Thanks! We really do want to do this the right way, and grow the hologram community long term.

Let me know if you know anyone at Glowforge that could be a guide through the process. Always good to be able to bounce things off someone who's been there.

Sorry about that, it has been a crazy year, and things have fallen through the cracks occasionally. The holograms with our film do not form surface relief patterns, and would not work for the "press the hologram into chocolate" idea.

However, existing embossed holograms do have the surface relief and can be used for this.

I agree that holograms have a way of grabbing kids' imaginations! Perhaps you could get a 3D Hologram Printer as well and make your own hologram exhibit for the science museum. So the next generation of kids can get hooked.

The Chicogo Museum was amazingly packed with holograms practically floor to ceiling. The telescope one is another one to remember, with the front poking out into the viewer's side of the hologram, and the ability to put your eye up to is and see through.

Hopefully there will be a series of holograms made on our 3D Hologram Printer as an homage to older holograms like this that made an impression. That is what we were trying to do with our Kiss hologram.

Definitely possible. Essentially, each hogel could contain unrelated information and almost serve as holographic data storage.

Additionally, separate holograms could be tiled together to make a larger hologram as well. We even thought about having tiling as a stretch goal for the Kickstarter.

Razors or blades? Our first approach is to make the hardware more accessible and affordable (a first for hologram technology like this). But hologram film is the primary consumable. Has been interesting to see ink now become a subscription service as well.

The hologram film is laminated onto the glass for stability. The film itself is photosensitive and records the peaks and valleys of the interference pattern of the laser light.