Full record for holocam n.

Definition	a camera for taking three-dimesnsional holographic pictures. Looking for both 'holocam' and 'holocamera'
OED requirements	antedating 1968
Earliest cite	John Brunner, "Stand on Zanzibar"
Comment	Matthew Hoyt submitted a cite for the form "holocam" from a 1989 reprint of James Tiptree's "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"; Mike Christie verified the cite in a 1975 reprint. Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite for the form "holocam" from a 1971 reprint of John Brunner's "Stand On Zanzibar"; Dave Langford verified the cite in the 1968 first edition. Katrina Campbell submitted a 1980 cite from Malcolm Edwards and Robert Holdstock's "Tour of the Universe". Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1998 reprint of Barbara Hambly's 1997 "Planet of Twilight". Mike Christie submitted a 2002 cite from Kage Baker's "The Likely Lad". Mike Christie submitted a cite from a 1983 reprint of Harry Harrison's 1981 "Planet of No Return".
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for holocam n.

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1991 J. Varley Steel Beach (1993) 10	She had one green, normal eye, and the other one was red, without a pupil. My eyes were the same except the normal one was brown. The red-eyed holocams of the press never sleep.
1991 J. Varley Steel Beach (1993) 148	The holocam is a partly mechanical, partly biologic device about the size of a fingernail clipping that is implanted inside the eye, way over to one side, out of the way of you peripheral vision.
1997 B. Hambly Star Wars: Planet of Twilight (1998) 289	As far as Luke could tell, there were no holocams or viewers in the stairwell: only a close-crowding monotony of permacrete walls, grimy with the brown tracks of drochs.
1998 J. Meaney To Hold Infinity ii. 27	Realtime holocams reproduced the crystal sphere in which the girls were dancing, a sphere rising through a clear green sea shot through with bright bacterial streamers.
2002 Asimov's Sci. Fiction Sept. 67	M. Despres shrugged, hoping his holocam picked up the gesture.