fauxlography
UK/fəʊˈlɒɡɹəfi/US/foʊˈlɒɡɹəfi/
fauxlography noun: effects that are falsely confused with holography, such as the effects produced by lenticular printing, the Pepper's ghost illusion, tomography and volumetric displays.
Noun
fauxlography (usually uncountable, plural fauxlographies)
- Effects that are falsely confused with holography, such as the effects produced by lenticular printing, the Pepper's ghost illusion, tomography and volumetric displays.
- This has created inflated expectations in the mind of the public who largely believe that displays or ‘holographic projectors’ already exist and its trivial to make them. This void that has been filled a great deal of ‘fake holographic 3D’, based on Pepper’s Ghost and similar optical illusions...2016 December 1, Alun Williams, “Comment: Holographic technology takes a step beyond AR and VR”, in Electronics Weekly, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2019
- As the user has to wear specialist equipment to view HoloLens content, it could arguably be bracketed with Pepper's Ghost technologies as another example of fauxlography, given that the HoloLens is clearly quite distinct from classical holograms.2020 January 3, Shengquan Yu, Avgoustos Tsinakos, Mohamed Ally, Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies in the Curriculum, Springer Nature Singapore, →ISBN, page 219
Examples of fauxlography in a sentence
- This void that has been filled a great deal of ‘fake holographic 3D’, based on Pepper’s Ghost and similar optical illusions; otherwise known as “fauxlography”.2016 December 1, Alun Williams, “Comment: Holographic technology takes a step beyond AR and VR”, in Electronics Weekly, archived from the...
- Pepper's ghost and similar tricks, however, are only "fauxlography," not holography, says Khan.2021 November 1, Mark Wolverton, “Where are all the holograms?: The elusive realm of total 3D immersion”, in SPIE, archived from the...
- These projections currently tend to be classified as false holograms or fauxlography.2022 January 14, Alexandra Bounia, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Antigone Heraclidou, Emerging Technologies and Museums: Mediating Difficult...
Forms of fauxlography
| plural | fauxlographies |
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Origin of fauxlography
Blend of faux + holography.
Words that rhyme with fauxlography
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Questions about fauxlography
- What does fauxlography mean?
- Fauxlography means effects that are falsely confused with holography, such as the effects produced by lenticular printing, the Pepper's ghost illusion, tomography and volumetric displays.
- How do you use fauxlography in a sentence?
- This void that has been filled a great deal of ‘fake holographic 3D’, based on Pepper’s Ghost and similar optical illusions; otherwise known as “fauxlography”.
- What part of speech is fauxlography?
- Fauxlography is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fauxlography?
- Fauxlography is pronounced /fəʊˈlɒɡɹəfi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fauxlography?
- The plural of fauxlography is fauxlographies.
Words near fauxlography in the dictionary
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