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The First Multi-User Hologram Table?

I can scarcely believe it, but this is apparently the first truly shared, multi-user hologram table.

This display sounds similar to the teledar, a three-dimensional television technology described by William Tenn in his 1951 story The Jester.

This display could be used to display a real-time 3D chessboard like the one Star Wars fans are familiar with, from the well-known feature-length film of 1977, or the book published in 1976.

Update 17-Aug-2024: Consider also the tabletop display from An Adventure in Time, by Francis Flagg, published by Science Wonder Stories in 1930. End update.

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