History Main / HolographicTerminal

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has Athena's Widget, a necklace computer that projects a holographic terminal that the player will use in the ''Mood Matrix'' sections of the game. Athena wears a special glove that allows her to physically interact with the hologram.

* In later issues of the pre-Flashpoint ''Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey'', ComicBook/{{Oracle}} had a holographic terminal.
* Salaak, the ComicBook/GreenLantern MissionControl, does his job using a semicircle of terminals he creates with his ring. This is convenient, as his workstation is wherever he happens to be.
* ComicBook/{{Oracle}} gets another holographic terminal in the Elseworlds tale ''[[ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman Gothamazon]]''.
* All over the place in ''ComicBook/{{Starstruck}}'', which got in on the act early, seeing as it came out in comics form in the early '80's.
* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}} Unchained'', Lois Lane controls the Daily Planet layout with a holographic terminal.
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' had this -- sort of. One of the wide, ''wide'' variety of genetic enhancements people had was the "phone trait", which was essentially an implanted cell phone. To dial a number, you just imagined punching numbers on a keypad under your right hand. The keypad is visible to ''you'', but not to anyone else, since it's just inside your head, technically.

* The gate-keeper operators for Zion in the second ''[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' movie (the ones who clear the ship for entry in the beginning), although technically they're in their own mini-Matrix (so to speak), so it's not 'real' hologram technology. Note that these people organize who lands where in Zion as opposed to just being door-openers, something that might be easier to organize inside a construct -- besides, they're sure as hell not going to let a program do it.

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has "Ghost interfaces" but by the 107th century {{A|lternateCalendar}}T they're very retro. Having long been replaced by Direct Neural Interfaces and "Wraith" screens that use [[NanoMachines Utility Fog]] to effectively act as HardLight.

Normally it might appear near an emitter of some kind, maybe even inside actual pieces of transparent plastic or in the empty space between metallic frames. However they're increasingly turning into the SFX equivalent of Internet pop ups: Appearing without the need for an emitter or any kind of prompting by TheSmartGuy who'll use it. For much the same reason they're more common in [[{{Cyberspace}} VR environments]] and [[TheMetaverse themed worlds.]] Commonly seen as part of AugmentedReality interfaces.

Compare TheBigBoard. Contrast with {{Zeerust}}, {{Steampunk}}, OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture, and UsedFuture. See also: HardLight and {{Hologram}}. See also HologramProjectionImperfection. Subtrope of TransparentTech.

Compare TheBigBoard. Contrast with {{Zeerust}}, {{Steampunk}}, OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture, and UsedFuture. See also: HardLight and {{Hologram}}. See also HologramProjectionImperfection.

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* ''[[LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates Moretsu Pirates]]'' has these, and they seem to interact with regular terminals in interesting ways. For example, in the first episode Marika takes a handheld, flips through a series of fasion images, flicks one which turns it into a hologram, then sends the hologram flying over to a larger monitor where a video of the person wearing the outfit plays. The characters also receive email as a holographic envelope which they have to physically open.

* ''[[Anime/SerialExperimentsLain Lain]]'''s CyberPunk computer had this, after she had upgraded it considerably.