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Holobox? Who Doesn't Want A Home Hologram?

Holobox, by Holoconnects, improves on that olde-timey zoom experience.

Holoconnects is a leader in the revolution toward a more sustainable, engaging and technologically advanced future for customer acquisition, guest satisfaction and information exchange in hospitality, virtual medicine, retail engagement, education, teleportation, corporate product presentations, on-site training, live events, next gen immersive advertising experiences and more.

(Via Holoconnects.)

I read about the amazing telestereo from Edmond Hamilton's stirring 1928 novel Crashing Suns, and I want one.

Instantly there appeared standing upon the disk, the image of a man in the blue and white robe of the Supreme Council, a lifesize and moving and stereoscopically perfect image, flashed across the void of space to my apparatus by means of etheric vibrations...

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