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by jnhnum1 4540 days ago
I don't think the data requirements are that realistic. While the actual interference patterns on a hologram would be ridiculously large to send as a bitmap, it's easy to compute the interference patterns for the superposition of points of lights, which is what this volumetric display is showing anyways. So a computer would only need to send a list of points and colors to the display.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_holography#P...

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You still have to drive the display. If you are just sending minimal information, you then need something to process that data and output the 12 terabits/sec.