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History of Holography

Holography is nothing new. It has already been around for 60 years.

The concept was born in 1947 – thanks to the unexpected results of research into electron microscopes by Hungarian physicist Dennis Gabor. Tangible results of good quality followed much later –and only on film bearing still images. His lifetime contribution to science was so ground-breaking, it was recognised with the Nobel Prize for physics in 1971.

Since then the best and most life-like images have all been flat. And viewed with 2D media. The real challenge – displaying 3D details in moving formats – has proven too much of a headache until now: available only in stereo, resolution was poor if you weren’t wearing eye-aching glasses.

But scientists don’t give up easily. Human beings have mastered many challenges over the centuries.

• We dreamed of flying and space travel … and solved it
• We dreamed of instant worldwide communication … and solved it
• We dreamed of 3D (many of us only in our wildest fantasies) … and now a fully-functioning breakthrough lies right before us.

Will our world ever be the same again? Will we be able, one day, to imagine life without 3D holography?