Holographic Screen
A rectangular screen, two meters tall and 0.8 meters wide, with two handles on one side.
The screen was developed and originally used by a stage magician. It allowed him to hide in one of his boxes on stage, while it was open, and he’d be invisible to the audience as the screen showed a hologram of the box empty. Thus he eliminated the need for cramped secret compartments in his stage boxes.
The screen works best if you stand still in a corner, and angle the screen so it touches both walls just outside yourself in the corner. The screen doesn’t work if you try to move around, as it can’t adapt and change the holographic image fast enough to "edit you out" of the image.
The screen was developed and originally used by a stage magician. It allowed him to hide in one of his boxes on stage, while it was open, and he’d be invisible to the audience as the screen showed a hologram of the box empty. Thus he eliminated the need for cramped secret compartments in his stage boxes.
The screen works best if you stand still in a corner, and angle the screen so it touches both walls just outside yourself in the corner. The screen doesn’t work if you try to move around, as it can’t adapt and change the holographic image fast enough to "edit you out" of the image.
Utility
It’s used by a stage magician, to hide in plain sight, as part of some of his illusions. He came up with the idea as he was getting old and no longer agile enough to get into the hidden compartments in his stage equipment. Years after his death, the magician’s assistant lent the screen to Hieronymous Barker to use to escape a jail cell. He failed to mention to Barker that the screen doesn’t work too well if you move around with it.
Social Impact
It allowed an aging stage magician to perform for a few years longer.
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Access & Availability
The stage magician and his assistant knew about it, but kept it secret for professional reasons. A version of the screen, used in an illusion to make a building "disappear", was later stolen and used to camouflage the ship Procrustes?
Complexity
The holographic image and capture comes from a nano material, which is already present in a large majority of products in the Coalition, including the ink used in the tattoos every citizen get on the inside of their left forearm when they turn fifteen years old.
Discovery
It’s adapted from the material used to make holographic posters and other printed materials and the stage magician got the idea from an advert for glasses on a tram stop, where the poster showed what was behind the tram stop, making everyone who walked past on the other side disappear for the time they were obscured by the ad.
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