Hi... some time ago Dakota and me had some idea on hardlight tech and an incident on Jenga that lead to the tech. After robkelk told me that the Trekkies were working on a similar tech in 2018-2020, I combined both ideas and came up with a wiki entry for it (see below).
Shortly afterwards Cobalt Greywalker remarked that there is evidence in the Second Phobos Invitational that the tech is a lot older (most likely developed in 2013-2016, maybe even earlier), but the story is not conclusive about it.
I would like to hear the opinions of the community how we should handle the whole thing.
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Hardlight Holograms
»I am not sure Mira ever noticed what was wrong when she woke up. Until we told her that she had been sleeping on the branches of our holographic Christmas Tree over the night!«
- Cathy in early 2020, telling a story about the Christmas Party some days ago
»Emergency Medical Holographic Program AK-1 ready for duty... wait, what do you mean, you have still a problem with solid holograms? Wake me up when you got it running you fools!«
- heard during the development of the first room sized Solid Hologram projector on Starbase 1
History
Holographic technology has always been a part of most Fenspace factions. Handwavium allowed the Fen to go from two-dimensional projection to free-floating three dimensional shapes within a months, something that has angered the Daneverse entertainment industry a lot.
But while three dimensional projections became cheap quickly, the results were still without substance, free floating images that could be seen, but not touched. Several factions and research institutions worked on solving this problem without success for years. But then, a blue-hair moment pushed the technology of Fenspace a little bit forward.
During a Christmas party in 2019 at Jenga with lots of partying, a group of catgirls and the Holo artist Dakota suddenly began to rip apart the projectors of the holographic Christmas tree and began to work on it. Like most blue-hair moments, it couldn’t be reconstructed later what had happened during the night, but the Trekkie built holo-projectors had gained a new quality during the night, the projection had become solid.
Unfortunately nobody had a clue how the system did achieve this effect.
It took a combined research team of Trekkie hologram specialists and catgirls from Catgirl Industries (with regular help and advice from Dakota) more than a year to replicate the effect with a new prototype.
The technology
Hardlight system (or Solid Holograms as the Trekkies call them usually) are a more complex kind of projection system that can give their output a solid surface. Depending on the complexity of the projection system this ability can be anywhere between the projection of smooth walls and a Star Trek style holodeck.
Most Hardlight projectors are very limited in the amount of force they can apply on real objects within their area of effect. You can easily touch Hardlight projections, but pressing too hard will let you slide through the projections. Most times this disrupts the effect of a solid surface for all projections closeby.
Quirks:
Trivia:
Shortly afterwards Cobalt Greywalker remarked that there is evidence in the Second Phobos Invitational that the tech is a lot older (most likely developed in 2013-2016, maybe even earlier), but the story is not conclusive about it.
I would like to hear the opinions of the community how we should handle the whole thing.
###############
Hardlight Holograms
»I am not sure Mira ever noticed what was wrong when she woke up. Until we told her that she had been sleeping on the branches of our holographic Christmas Tree over the night!«
- Cathy in early 2020, telling a story about the Christmas Party some days ago
»Emergency Medical Holographic Program AK-1 ready for duty... wait, what do you mean, you have still a problem with solid holograms? Wake me up when you got it running you fools!«
- heard during the development of the first room sized Solid Hologram projector on Starbase 1
History
Holographic technology has always been a part of most Fenspace factions. Handwavium allowed the Fen to go from two-dimensional projection to free-floating three dimensional shapes within a months, something that has angered the Daneverse entertainment industry a lot.
But while three dimensional projections became cheap quickly, the results were still without substance, free floating images that could be seen, but not touched. Several factions and research institutions worked on solving this problem without success for years. But then, a blue-hair moment pushed the technology of Fenspace a little bit forward.
During a Christmas party in 2019 at Jenga with lots of partying, a group of catgirls and the Holo artist Dakota suddenly began to rip apart the projectors of the holographic Christmas tree and began to work on it. Like most blue-hair moments, it couldn’t be reconstructed later what had happened during the night, but the Trekkie built holo-projectors had gained a new quality during the night, the projection had become solid.
Unfortunately nobody had a clue how the system did achieve this effect.
It took a combined research team of Trekkie hologram specialists and catgirls from Catgirl Industries (with regular help and advice from Dakota) more than a year to replicate the effect with a new prototype.
The technology
Hardlight system (or Solid Holograms as the Trekkies call them usually) are a more complex kind of projection system that can give their output a solid surface. Depending on the complexity of the projection system this ability can be anywhere between the projection of smooth walls and a Star Trek style holodeck.
Most Hardlight projectors are very limited in the amount of force they can apply on real objects within their area of effect. You can easily touch Hardlight projections, but pressing too hard will let you slide through the projections. Most times this disrupts the effect of a solid surface for all projections closeby.
Quirks:
- A lot of Hardlight holodeck systems have issues with their safety protocols.
Trivia:
- It took the Trekkies several years to finish the first Holodeck
- Catgirl Industries still use the first Hardlight system at Jenga for their Christmas parties
