The people over at Obscura Digital pulled off another nice piece of installation. Using their own multi-touch software and combining it with the holographic projection technology of Musion’s Eyeliner 3D System they created quite some magic. If you look closely at the end you can see that the operator has tiny LED lamps in his hands that, if i’m guessing correctly, light up once he squeezes them, which then will create a blob for the system to recognzie. 

via Engadget

We all know it from the movies and science fiction stories. But it seems that holographic projections are not longer future talk anymore, they have been around for a while and their quality increases constantly. The Musion Eyeliner 3D Holographic Projection System is one of the popular systems, and it certainly does a lot of faking (well, the 3D is more like a catch phrase, because they only use one projector and single lens cameras to film the content but place it in a 3-dimensional set of “foils”), but the effect is still stunning, and on their showreel website they have very nice reference clips to look at.