#Sci fi hologram desktop control series#

Player characters are able to use holographic decoys in games such as Halo: Reach and Crysis 2 to confuse and distract the enemy. In many titles, fictional holographic technology has been used to reflect real life misrepresentations of potential military use of holograms, such as the 'mirage tanks' in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 that can disguise themselves as trees. Holography served as an inspiration for many video games with the science fiction elements. Examples of this type of depiction include the hologram of Princess Leia in Star Wars, Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf, who was later converted to 'hard light' to make him solid, and the Holodeck and Emergency Medical Hologram from Star Trek. This had the effect of giving the public overly high expectations of the capability of holography, due to the unrealistic depictions of it in most fiction, where they are fully three-dimensional computer projections (more like real-life volumetric displays) that are sometimes tactile through the use of force fields. Science fiction writers absorbed the urban legends surrounding holography that had been spread by overly-enthusiastic scientists and entrepreneurs trying to market the idea. Holography has been widely referred to in movies, novels, and TV, usually in science fiction, starting in the late 1970s.

#Sci fi hologram desktop control series#

Probably the first reference is by Isaac Asimov in his sci-fi novel series “the Foundation Trilogy” in 1951. Holography is often used as a plot device in science fiction, appearing in a wide range of books, films, television series, animation and video games.