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Huge Holographic Head: Mostly averted, because while a perfectly trivial piece of image manipulation, even the usual suspects have long since figured out that it’s really hard to be taken seriously by people you’ve invited to stare right up your Huge Holographic Nostrils.
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Hologram Projection Imperfection: As mentioned under the Hologram trope, their glamor failure is deliberate; trigraphic projections are splendidly perfect and accurate, and even can dynamically correct for lighting differences when used sender to receiver – so, unless otherwise called for, they’re deliberately tuned to slight transparency to clue people in
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Projected Man: A common representation-format for artificial intelligences (and other infomorphs) – although a majority of AIs do not use biosapience-shaped avatars, preferring more abstract neomorphic shapes – and telerepresentation users both. In some cases, may not be a simple trigraphic (hologram, to speakers of non-deeply-SFnal English who don’t realize the