Get your own holographic Rimmer!

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Holograms have always been a quick, easy way for movies to tell us they're taking place in the future. As soon as you see someone talking with a human-sized hologram, you realize there's no way you'll ever be able to do that, and a part of you dies. Now, a company on Kickstarter promises to bring you the holographic… Read…

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But a life-size hologram is something anyone who's watched a science fiction movie has secretly dreamed about.

I'll take two, please!

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

What would you do with two Rimmers? Where would they sleep - or even stand?

I find it odd when they want to talk about life-size holograms that are something someone would actually want, they fall back on Star Wars. Those are not good holograms. Al from Quantum Leap would be a well-known hologram that fits more what people might find desirable, as far as freestanding and able to interact (minus the ability to touch, of course - is Rimmer the only solid one in fiction?).

[nlea.livejournal.com]

There's the holographic Doctor from star trek voyager. He was basically hard light. The andromeda ascendant (the ship from the show andromeda) could project her image in her corridors as she saw fit. Though that was more an extension of the ship's core personality than an independent entity. But the holographic Doctor totally counts. He was my first experience with an independent holographic character actually.

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I forgot all about him! I can't believe it, because I loved him too. He was awesome.

[nlea.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Hes probably my favorite character in all of trek. But aside from him and other trek holograms, I can't think of any other holograms. Well, maybe the AI from the Halo universe, but I'm not sure they really count.

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[kronette.livejournal.com]

What would you do with two Rimmers? Where would they sleep - or even stand?

My first answer is "they're holograms; they don't need to sleep." My second answer is "Wear out the first one, have a spare already on standby."

But I honestly thought that they'd be soft light, so...they'd be light fixtures on either side of my couch?

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

For some reason I'm put in mind of that threesome fic. ;)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

The one with the two Listers and Rimmer in the alternate dimension?

[kronette.livejournal.com]

No, there is one with "Me2" Rimmers and Lister, isn't there? Or was that just the Me2 Rimmers trying to outsex each other I'm thinking of? Was Lister included in that?

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was a lovely one as well. The one I remember is them trying to outdo each other ON Lister. :-D

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Oh. oh, hell. I don't remember that one. I'd have remembered that, I think!

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Here it is. Read in private: http://reddwarfslash.livejournal.com/306818.html

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

No, not "Spanners", good though that is. I meant this one: http://reddwarfslash.livejournal.com/306818.html

Very much NSFW. ;)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

That's the one I was telling her about, yep!

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Nooo ... make them hard-light and have them as lamps at the ends of the sofa. Just be careful when you're blindly reaching for the "chain pull" ...

[kronette.livejournal.com]

I'd need to become an officer...or at least first technician so I could order them to just stand there and *ahem* take it.

if I could get the velour pants with the blue series X tunic, my life would be complete. Stand there, lads. Just ... there. At attention. stare straight ahead. Pay no attention to the movements below your eye level ;)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I confess: I've never seen "Star Wars". Is the nearly-naked woman from that, or just there to attract fanboys? :p

[nlea.livejournal.com]

No, not from star wars. Almost looks like Cortana from Halo, but it's probably just a generic image.

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