What happened to the Holograms?

[Darren_Garrison]

@Senegoid

They had some amazing holograms. One of them showed an image of a microscope looking at a microchip. The eyepiece of the microscope image was positioned such that you could put your own eye up to in a look into it – and see the magnified microchip, like looking into a real microscope.

I was in a hologram store/gallery once as a teen back in the early 1990s. They had a version of that one (though I think it was a bug in the microscope, not a microchip) and one with a telescope you could look into and see a woman undressing in a nearby house. (The prices were in the low hundreds, IIRC. Definitely not in my budget at the time.)

(And I see that the Youtube links I included in this earlier post still work.)

Are holographic lenses practical?

I remember seeing some of these at a hologram gallery/store in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, some time before 1992 when the whole block burned down. Lots of expensive* holograms on display, but the ones that impressed me enough to still remember more than 20 years later were the microscope and telescope that you could look into. (The microscope one in the link might be the same one I saw–I’m pretty sure that the telescope one is the exact one.) *The cheapest ones were IIRC over $50 and the most expen…