  We assess the prospects of using metamaterials for simulating various aspects
of analogue gravity and holographic correspondence. Albeit requiring a careful
engineering of the dielectric media, some hallmark features reminiscent of the
hypothetical 'generalized holographic conjecture' can be detected by measuring
non-local optical field correlations. The possibility of such simulated
behavior might also shed light on the true origin of those apparent
holography-like phenomena in the condensed matter systems with emergent
effective metrics which may not, in fact, require any references to the
string-theoretical holography.
