Holoxica calls its medical displays light field, not holograms

What you see

Holoxica's displays are aimed at clinicians: a full-color, glasses-free image of a patient's own CT or MRI scan appears to float inside or above a viewing surface, and the company's homepage lists products named Anatomy Atlas, Anatomy Gallery, Surgery and 3D Telemedicine built on the same hardware. No headset is required; the company's language emphasizes real-time 3D content viewable by multiple viewers standing around the unit at once, which is the intended draw for a surgical-planning tool where more than one clinician needs to look at the same anatomy together.

How it works

Holoxica's own technology page is explicit that its hardware is a light field display, not a volumetric one, and draws the distinction itself: light field displays "chop up the image volume radially, a bit like a cake," while volumetric displays "slice the volume like a loaf of bread." In practice this means the hardware emits a dense fan of light rays from a high-resolution LCD panel or a projector array, arranged so each eye position around the display intercepts a slightly different set of rays and therefore a different view of the same three-dimensional scene, rather than physically sweeping a screen through the image volume.

Viewing conditions and limits

The company states an angular separation of roughly one degree between adjacent views and a field of view "typically ~50 degrees or greater," which sets how far a viewer can move sideways before the picture stops updating smoothly and how many people can stand around the unit at once. These are the manufacturer's own figures, retrieved from its site on 16 September 2026, and no independent measurement of angular resolution or brightness appears on the page. The company lists Surgery and Anatomy Atlas among its products, but the retrieved pages do not state that any display has received a specific medical-device regulatory clearance; no such claim should be inferred from the product names alone.

What it is not

This is not a volumetric display that physically occupies the three-dimensional space it depicts, Holoxica's own page draws that line, and it is not a recorded interference hologram of a real object, since the source data is a computed or scanned dataset rendered live rather than captured through a reference and object beam. The holographic branding in the company's name refers to the multi-view, glasses-free effect rather than to holography in the Gabor sense.

• Has any specific Holoxica product received a named regulatory clearance, and for what use?
• What is the measured field of view and view count for the unit being demonstrated, versus the general figures quoted on the website?
• How is patient scan data converted into the ray pattern the display emits, and by whom?

Holoxica's own vocabulary is more careful than its brand name might suggest: it names light field technology specifically, contrasts it with volumetric displays in the same sentence, and does not, on the pages retrieved here, claim a specific clinical clearance. That self-imposed precision is useful for a reader trying to work out what a holographic medical display actually does, and where its marketing claims stop and its technical claims begin.