# What happened to the Holograms? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-holograms/966085 "2022-06-12T23:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-holograms/966085/14 "2022-06-13T04:14:19Z")
> [@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?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-holographic-lenses-practical/814744/10): > > I remember seeing some of these at a hologram gallery/store in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, some time before 1992 [when the whole block burned down](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatlinburg,_Tennessee#Fire_of_1992). Lots of expensive\* holograms on display, but the ones that impressed me enough to still remember more than 20 years later were the [microscope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhPDeUtn8mc) and [telescope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPqdCO23PRI) 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-holograms/966085)._