Holo-Box Floating-Image Display

Holo-Box Floating-image Display

The Holo-Box at Sketchers in Santa Monica, California

The Holo-Box aerial-image display makes 3-dimensional volumetric images float in space. Images hover dramatically in mid air. The Holo-Box provides true 3-D, with horizontal and vertical motion parallax, without the need of 3-D glasses.

Museums can offer closer views of artifacts, with the protection of a locked enclosure.

The Holo-Box can project images through store windows. The HoloBox is ideal in theme parks and the lobby of 3-D theaters.

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Holo-Box FS-4365

The Holo-Box FS-4365 is ideal in trade shows and retail settings to protect items from smash-and-grab robberies. The Holo-Box can be pushed up against the store window to create images outside the store, while protecting items behind glass.

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Holo-Box FS-4365

Cross-eyed stereo

The turntable version provides a life-like image of objects placed inside under lights to display the products in rich three-dimensional detail as if the object itself is floating in front of the Holo-Box.

Specifications:

Size: Floor standing.
image height: For average standing adult.
Video image size: approximately 11″ diagonal.
Product size: approximately 11″ dia. (turntable version).
Projected image distance: approximately 8 in.
Horizontal audience angle: 65°.
Non-glare front window.
Switches for lights, fan and turntable (or video).
Electrical: 110 VAC, 60 Hz.
With steerable casters and leveling feet.
Door for product or video access.

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Counter-top Holo-Box CT-2260:

The counter-top Holo-Box is ideal for jewelry, watches, cameras, cell phones and eye glasses. Every detail, the depth of pearls and the sparkle of diamonds, is displayed in minute detail.

Model CT-2260 Specifications:

Size: image at standing eye height, on a store counter.
Projected image distance: 7 in.
Horizontal audience angle: 60°.
Non-glare front window.
Switches for lights, and turntable and exhaust fan.
Electrical: 110 V AC, 60 Hz, 150 W.


Click to view the video of Counter-Top Holo-Box model CT-2260.	Click to view the full-resolution photo of the floating image.

Glass-top Holo-Box GT-60:

The glass-top Holo-Box is ideal for conference tables and bar tops. At concession counters in movie theaters, the Holo-Box sells, popcorn and drinks. When a theater is playing an animated movie, merchandise from the movie can be displayed as if standing on the glass counter.

In fast food restaurants, the Holo-Box can be built into the glass-top counter beside the cash register. Burgers and drinks can appear to pop onto the counter to entice customers to buy. In the example shown, the actual soda inside the cabinet appears on the glass top.

Half-scale

proof-of-concept

mockup.

Floating 3-D images on the glass top (not of the watches themselves, but the aerial images) appear to be sitting on the glass.

Model GT-60 Specifications:

Height: table or bar-top surface.
Image and reflection appear on top of glass.
Projected image distance: approx. 10 in.
Horizontal audience angle: 60°.
Switches for lights, and turntable.
Image size: approximately 7 x 7″.
Electrical: 110 V AC.

At a Grocery-Store trade show:

A custom Holo-Box made for the 2005 Food Marketing Institute trade show in Chicago where it won the Retailer Choice Award for Best New Technology. A news story about the trade show said it was the “Buzz of the show”.

At Fast-Food Drive Ins:

Holo-Boxes used behind windows at hamburger drive-ins.

*The Holo-Box is illustrated somewhat from the side to indicate the position of aerial image seen by viewers from in front.

Comments:

“I was really amazed with your Holo Boxes!“, Ilya Morevsky, June 2013.
The Holo-Box won the Retailer Choice Award for Best New Technology at the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) trade show in Chicago in June, 2005.
“Steve’s a great guy and we really believe in this technology“, Bob Ostrander, VP, Provision Entertainment (a HinesLab licensee), quoted in Fortune Small Business Magazine, Jan. 2005.
“It’s the most spectacular display I’ve ever seen“, Michael Starks, Oct. 2005.
“Holo-Box… is the finest volumetric display of its type ever done.” Michael Starks, June 2004.