IANAL (patent or otherwise), however my understanding is that you can't patent something that is trivial. This technology has been around in books and movies for a long, long time. It was even obvious how it would be done, assuming you had holographs in the air which as far as I know we still do not have.
For whatever it's worth this is why the waterbed was not, could not be, patented. Heinlein described it in great detail in Stranger in a Strange Land.
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IANAL (patent or otherwise), however my understanding is that you can't patent something that is trivial. This technology has been around in books and movies for a long, long time. It was even obvious how it would be done, assuming you had holographs in the air which as far as I know we still do not have.
For whatever it's worth this is why the waterbed was not, could not be, patented. Heinlein described it in great detail in Stranger in a Strange Land.