Holography is a technique that records an image in three dimensions, allowing the image to be viewed from different angles like a real object. It was invented in 1948 by Dennis Gabor, who wrote a foundational paper on the topic before lasers were even invented. A hologram is created through the interference of light waves from an object beam and a reference beam, which converts phase information into an amplitude pattern that can reconstruct the 3D image. Holography has many applications including entertainment, teaching and training through virtual reality, virtual communication, simulation and planning, and military and space technologies.