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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-18-2012, 05:09 AM:

Watch this (perhaps with the sound off would be best unless you like this kind of music):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVGIRsKXdo

While 2-pack looks very, very CG and fake, I am more interested how this works technically. They do this same shit in Japan a lot with anime dolls dancing and singing. It's rather creepy. It all looks very convincing on Youtube. But is it really a 3D projection where I could walk around it and see it from any angle? Or is it a 2D image projected onto some kind of transparent material?

Pepper's Ghost?

Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 04-18-2012, 06:04 AM:

Right, Joe... a variation on Pepper's Ghost.

Definitely not a hologram...just bright projection on a mylar film.

Here is a Japanese version.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-18-2012, 08:49 AM:

One news story said the image was projected on an angled piece of glass. Not really a hologram. But the press doesn't believe in accuracy anymore these days anyway. Hyperbole and inaccuracy is the new truth. And that's because so many of the viewers out there in TV land are stupid enough to believe it.

In short, this whole digging Tupac from the grave thing is much ado about nothing.

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-18-2012, 10:32 AM:

Yes. Pepper's Ghost. If you've ever gone to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, similar effects are used there.

We have done a variation of this on our stage using a black, scrim and a video projector.

Clarke's Law #3: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Corollary: Any sufficiently stupid population is unable to distinguish technology from magic.

Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 04-18-2012, 12:02 PM:

You can clearly see the mesh screen at the very start of the Japanese video I posted above.

Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 04-18-2012, 01:15 PM:

And rats, the video has been pulled.

AJG