Hologram

A hologram is an artificially created image using photons arranged in a manner to better display information...or trick people, depending on the situation at hand.

Fiction

In addition to physically changing form, Transformers across all continuities use holograms to maintain disguise in their alternate mode, especially when battle damage would otherwise make that difficult.<ref>Hasbro Q&A/August 2009: Answers</ref>

Generation 1

Cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

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The Autobot Hound often made use of holograms. While guarding Ravage with Mirage, Hound came up with the idea to use a hologram to trick the Decepticons and lead them into an ambush. Optimus Prime agreed, and Ravage was allowed to escape, believing he had learned of a military base with large amounts of rocket fuel. Megatron, however, saw through Ravage's escape, sending the Decepticons to the real base, while he went with a group of shoddy constructions to rub it in Prime's face. The hologram of the base worked just fine, though... More than Meets the Eye, Part 3

Hound projected an image of a giant Autobot warrior to scare off the Constructicons. Heavy Metal War

Inside the Ark, Hound projected a hologram of Laserbeak so Wheeljack could demonstrate the Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer. Ironhide walked in and thought it was real and opened fire. This caused a minor cave-in which damaged the immobilizer. The Immobilizer

Lord Chumley used a holographic projection rifle to project an image of Astrotrain and Blitzwing in order to lure Tracks and Bumblebee into a trap. Prime Target

Shockwave was using a holographic projector to train with Sentinel drones when the Combaticons arrived and attacked them. Later, Shockwave and Starscream used the holographic projector to create various images of hostiles. This successfully distracted the Combaticons for some time, until Swindle discovered that their attackers were holograms. The Combaticons aren't really smart. That's why they let Onslaught do all the thinking. The Revenge of Bruticus

Super-God Masterforce cartoon

Diver used holographic scenarios to test the Autobot Headmaster Juniors' combat skills with. Shūta fared well against his three assailants. Cab did a good job extinguishing holographic flames, but was a little too slow in dealing with an opponent. And lastly, Minerva dealt with her adversary, but fell from a holographic waterfall, which made her objective of saving a puppy unmet. Rage!! Little Devils with No Need for Rules

Marvel Comics continuity

Hound scared off Ravage with a holographic missile projected from his turret gun. The Transformers

Young Corgi Adventure continuity

In this picture, the Triceratops is the hologram.

The time-travelling aliens used holograms of dinosaurs to keep intruders away from their flying saucer. It didn't work, as the Dinobots and the Decepticons Ravage and Laserbeak all saw through it, and ultimately the aliens' spacecraft wound up buried under present-day Disneyland. Dinobot War

IDW continuity

Recognizing that the Autobots' lack of drivers would attract attention, they used Holomatter avatars to avoid detection. However, security measures can be devised specifically to detect holomatter, showing that organizations such as the Machination already anticipated Cybertronian interference. IDW Generation 1 continuity

Beast Era

By the Beast Era, holograms were in more wide scale use, including such applications as entertainment and military use. The Axalon and the Darksyde both made extensive use of hologram technology to run simulations and observe events in real time. On Cybertron, there were holo-chips which allowed Transformers to interface with them and see things virtually—some of which were not always virtuous, if you get our meaning. Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search

Robots in Disguise

T-AI, the Autobots' computer, uses a holographic avatar in the form of a human girl to interact with Autobots and humans. An Explosive Situation

Unicron Trilogy

Armada cartoon

An ancient highly advanced human civilization had left holograms of themselves behind to warn those who came seeking for Mini-Cons. Ruin

Cybertron cartoon

Transformers were capable of creating holographic illusions of car interiors and drivers. A great many of these holographic drivers were based off of Bud Hansen, with others presumably being based off of Bud's brother Coby and his brother's (soon-to-be) girlfriend Lori. Hidden

Movie continuity

After introducing the Autobots, Optimus Prime showed Sam Witwicky and Mikaela Banes a hologram of the devastation Cybertron suffered during the war with Megatron. The Decepticons also made use of holograms, using a single, mustached male as a display to avoid attracting attention. Oddly enough, the Decepticon holograms appear to have solid machinery underneath them, but when activated they appear to be a projection with nothing under the surface. Transformers

While on a mission chasing down Decepticons in the Australian outback, a NEST team mistakenly raided a party of humans. When they realized their mistake, the Autobots had to urgently try to keep their cover, so they rezzed up some driver holograms in a rush. They were in such a hurry that Optimus Prime and Ironhide copied Salvage's driver exactly. Fortunately none of the humans noticed the triplet drivers.

The next site the NEST team came to, they were more cautious to prevent making the same mistake. They discovered three construction vehicles. The vehicles were the Constructicons Kickback, Tread, and Trample. Their holographic drivers were realistic enough and able to carry out casual human conversation convincingly enough that they very nearly fooled even the human members of the NEST team. Just to make sure Kaminari Ishihara tossed a rock to one of the miners that was standing around outside of the Constructicon's cab. When he let it drop at his feet, William Lennox threw another rock, this time intending to hit him. The rock passed right through him blowing their cover. A fight ensued. The Veiled Threat

Barricade used his driver hologram to fool a face recognition scanner at a secure facility in Scramble City. Cyber Missions 6

Ironhide activated a hologram resembling the human Jack intending to talk himself out of a speeding ticket. The police car pulling him over turned out to be Barricade. Cyber Missions 11

Gears projected a holographic images over top of Kevin Bowman which were able to track his movements. The first was an image of Kevin as an old man. This was then adjusted to be an image of Kevin at seventeen or eighteen with a mustache. Later, a hologram of Tailgate was projected over Kevin to distract Reverb. Transformers Classified: Switching Gears

Shattered Glass

The auto-combatants were composed of solid light and generated by a computer in rooms designed for battle training. Shattered Glass

Animated

The busts in Yoketron's dojo were holographic images of various members of the Cyber-Ninja Corps. Five Servos of Doom

Prowl also had the ability to create holographic images of himself and also objects as his special power.

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Arcee used a hologram of a human named Sadie when driverless. Transformers: Prime Jack lied to Sierra and told her it was his mom. Orion Pax, Part 1

Rescue Bots cartoon

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As part of Griffin Rock's tricentennial celebrations, Elma Hendrickson and a number of other prominent citizens from the town's history were recreated as holograms. The Haunting of Griffin Rock A hologram of Chester A. Arthur welcomes visitors to Hall of Inspiration Flobsters on Parade Christmas in July Small Blessings Doc Greene invented a handheld hologram projector which Chief Burns used to project a hologram of himself and Cody to fool a bear. Rules and Regulations

The holograms created for the tricentennial were reused by Myles and Evan to create an epidemic of "ghosts", so the pair could escape their jail cells and rob the people of Griffin Rock. They turned out to be susceptible to Doc Greene's Spectral Vapor Filter, though only temporarily. The Haunting of Griffin Rock

References

External links

Holography and Volumetric display on Wikipedia