What's funny is that it turns out Tupac's performance wasn't actually a hologram. It's a 100 year technology called Pepper's Ghost, which is a projection technique, not a hologram. But Michael Klug, our CTO and Co-Founder of Zebra Imaging, isn't complaining. He spoke with Bill Weir of ABC News this week via Skype and seems resigned to the fact that the term hologram has been co-opted by similar technologies, but he's just happy that people are talking about holograms. Watch the Video on Yahoo News

At first glance, it looks like a large, undeveloped Polaroid. Shine a flashlight on it and the film transforms into a three-dimensional holographic map that enables soldiers and commanders — without 3-D glasses or goggles — to better see the terrain in which they’re operating. Any unit preparing to deploy can ask for one to be custom-made for its area of operations.

The holograms fill the capability gap where two-dimensional maps and photographs cannot adequately represent a three-dimensional battlefield, said Lynn Schnurr, the Army intelligence chief information officer and director of the intelligence community’s information management directorate. Read more