The technology is not an actual hologram, just the projection of an image through a proprietary foil that makes 2D images appear 3D, a modernized version of a 150-year old illusion called Pepper's Ghost.
On nice days we sometimes sit and look at the perfect curve of the horizon, and we know, often for twenty-five minutes at a time the old illusion of security.
With the help of an old optical illusion, people can train their eyes to write and draw in cursive on a computer screen as quickly as they can write with a pen.
If the old illusion was that Greece was a wealthy country, the new illusion is that Greece will, in short order, become wealthy enough to pay back ever-growing sums of debt.
"Hopefully, it's 'new building, same old illusion.' ".
Steely Dan When Steely Dan resumed its career in 2000 with "Two Against Nature" after a 20-year gap between albums of new songs, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen packed it with pent-up mischief: odd meters and underhanded chromatic harmonies, squalid characters and elusive references, all with their old illusion of unflappable cool.
For Shakur's appearance, as well as the company's subsequent displays, they reportedly relied on a decades-old illusion called Pepper's Ghost.
The 2005 assassination of Lebanon's pro-Western, former prime minister Rafik Hariri, set off massive protests that saw Syria withdraw its military and rekindled old illusions of a Lebanon firmly in the Western camp.
Monolithic statues of scowling Soviet heroes loom over public squares and parks, a farcical reminder of old victories, old illusions.
