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When a character uses a personal Hologram projector to create clothing in lieu of real clothes.

Anime and Manga[]

  • Guardian Dog: Ishtar is an alien observer that monitors Earth to prevent poaching of humans by off-worlders, and possesses a suit that can change its appearance visually but not its composition.
  • Solmi's Channel: Jinsoo, an engineer specializing in augmented reality, is contracted by Solmi, a camgirl for an adult streaming website, to create holographic clothes that allow people to walk around naked in public.
  • In Aldnoah.Zero, holographs can be used to create whole different looks for people. It's pretty useful for Body Doubles or for King Incognito types; i.e. Princess Asseylum uses hers to hide among Earthians, and some time later her half-sister Princess Lemrina uses this to impersonate her while she's comatose.
  • Used by Sheryl Nome of Macross Frontier, when she's onstage. She puts on a special fully-body suit, and the holographic outfits are projected on her as she performs.
  • Captain Mimi's Secret Base has the boss of the protagonist who operates a cargo ship. The Chief apparently does a video chat in her bikini, and uses a hologram generator fantasizing Momo as her waitress. Said hologram room even provides clothes for her to make her look decent when she need to conduct a telepresence meeting.

Comic[]

  • Meteora: Alena Kuznetsova a space smuggler mostly walks in her underwear. To cover herself she utilizes bracelets made by her crew-mate Ziggy, that allows her to wear holographic clothing.
  • Marvel: Has tons of this example.
    • Peter Parker was given a Iron Spider-man suit by Tony Stark before he revealed his identity to the public. It used holographic technology to simulate his other costumes as well as his civilian attire.
    • Miguel O'Hara or Spider-man 2099 has his spider-suit to use holograms to cover his super-hero identity and other casual accessories.

Literature[]

  • Pioneer: Murphys In Space by P.Z. Walker, has the naturist Ballatayans who after altering the biological makeup of a human family to be resistant to extreme heat and cold temperatures, has a side effect of making wearing clothes unbearable, gift them with devices call ball clothes which is a ribbon with various metal balls that memorize body images of a person. The ball cloth projects images of them wearing clothes over their naked bodies. While the image is very realistic, people will notice if they touch the person's body and also while the body image can be seen via cameras, when reflected on the the surface of a mirror it turns blurry.

Live-Action TV[]

Western Animation[]

  • Chaotic: The CodeMasters of Chaotic possess special cards that allow them to wear their CodeMaster gear. Since they can be activate in the BattleDrome, a virtual simulator, and outside, it may be some hologram projector.
  • In the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", the Robot Devil loses his hands to Fry who then uses them to compose an musical opera. In one scene of the opera, depicting the Robot Devil in a humiliating fashion and idiot, he snaps and shuts off the power, revealing that the actors on stage used holograms for their costumes.
  • Max Steel (2013): Maxwell McGrath after being bonded with the ultralink N'barro Aksteel X377/Steel gains a power suit that covers his entire body. To hide it from his friends and family, Steel can create holograms to simulate him wearing casual clothes by just scanning samples in a closet. In a hilarious example, Steel accidentally scans Max's mother's smart suit.
  • In X-Men Evolution, Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner gets one of these so he can attend a local school without people finding out he's a mutant. An episode has him fooling around with this stuff, giving it pretty hilarious uses... and at the end, Xavier fixes it... and pranks Kurt via making him look like a girl. Attractice Bent-Gender A pretty cute girl, even.