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I Want My 1928 Telestereo Hologram Now

I believe I've mentioned that I want a real telestereo from Edmond Hamilton's stirring 1928 novel Crashing Suns:

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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