Bill Nye Explains How Holograms Work

Any time Bill Nye explains anything like this, I’m immediately back in elementary school science class.

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He does use Princess Leia’s “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” hologram as an example of things we can’t do yet, but not Star Trek’s holodeck. And the latter is much more important, I think.

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