The security hologram trade body kept its glossary after rebranding
IOTA, formerly the IHMA, still defines volume holograms and zero order devices for members, as its site read on 16 September 2026.
The archive
20 entries shown, each prepared after the events it records and published with its sources attached.
November 1, 1908
Lippmann's 1908 lens array proposed capturing many viewpoints
A 1908 citation and its description in later engineering literature outline Lippmann's lenslet array, the ancestor cited by today's light-field displays.
April 29, 2003
A patent rotated a screen to fill a dome with light
A 2003 patent for a spinning projection screen inside a dome set the template modern swept-volume volumetric displays still use.
March 19, 2020
NeRF learned a scene's geometry from ordinary photographs
The 2020 NeRF paper synthesised new viewpoints from posed photos, at a rendering cost later methods were built to fix.
June 22, 2015
Focused laser pulses drew touchable points of plasma light
A 2015 paper describes femtosecond laser pulses igniting light in air at up to 200,000 points a second.
July 1, 1993
Latency jitter provokes cybersickness more than steady delay
A peer-reviewed review finds irregular timing, not just longer delay, drives VR discomfort.
March 1, 1997
A lens array trades resolution for full parallax
Two 1990s integral-photography papers show how a lens array captures multiple angular views, and its resolution cost.
May 18, 2021
A light-field booth carried Google's Starline calls
A SIGGRAPH Asia paper and two company posts describe a head-tracked 3D display, and what changed as it became Google Beam.
A Teams avatar is a styled photo, not a live capture
Microsoft's support pages describe a Teams avatar built once from a photo, not a live-tracked likeness, with no legs yet supported.
April 29, 2003
A swept LED screen paints a volume you can walk around
The maker's history page dates its first display to 2017; a related patent explains why the volume cannot occlude.
August 9, 1969
Disneyland's own archive leaves the Haunted Mansion's tricks unnamed
Disney's official record confirms the 1969 opening date but not the optical technique widely attributed to its ghosts.
April 29, 2003
A 2005 survey split true 3D displays into two working classes
Favalora's 2005 review and two display patents show how swept-volume and static-volume systems solve occlusion differently, or not at all.
The Smithsonian's own digitization office outlines its 3D programme
With the public X 3D portal unreachable during research, the Digitization Program Office's own pages document what the 3D programme scans and shares.
May 27, 2022
ABBA Voyage's own producers reject the word hologram
The show's FAQ denies being a hologram performance, while ILM's credits describe an LED volume driven by capture data.
June 10, 2011
RealD's silver screen fixed 3D cinema's ghosting problem
RealD's SEC filings date cinema 3D's single-projector polarisation system to November 2005 and later flag its own declining demand.
October 31, 2020
Sony's spatial display renders views for one tracked viewer
Sony's own documentation states the display supports one viewer, eye-tracked within 30 to 75 centimetres.
March 12, 2015
A 2015 study measured stereo vision across a population
The Cambridge-hosted paper finds measurable, varied binocular function, not a simple pass or fail.
October 1, 2005
Naimark's own record documents an origin case for projection mapping
Michael Naimark's own project page records how a room, painted white, became the screen for a film shot inside it.
Sony's display renders two views for one tracked viewer
Developer documentation describes eye-tracked stereo rendering for a single Unity or Unreal Engine viewpoint.
A headset must be built to fit a range of eyes
Apple's documented 51-75mm IPD range and software realignment show fit is measured, not assumed.