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Why Holograms Of Dead Performers Weird Us Out (But We Keep Watching Them)

AUDIENCE, ISSUES Posted: August 30, 2016 7:00 am

“Simultaneously here and gone, holograms are stand-ins for all things virtual, harbingers of a ‘mixed reality’ in which the real and the simulated have been integrated seamlessly. … In reality, however, holograms have mostly been gaudy stunts … still abut the uncanny valley, displaying a body that is there and not there, alive and dead. Something about it doesn’t quite compute.”

AUDIENCE, ISSUES Published: 08.26.16

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 08.26.16

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