
Please see the video below which features a "live" presentor talking to the audience and video "holographic type" content This works well for musuem projects and stage based events. real presentors and real objects with the holographic type effects. With modern Pepper's Ghost productions, it is possible to mix the real with the virtual, i.e. With Pepper's Ghost, eventhough it looks 3D, there is no real 3D and no parallax, as the original content comes from 2D source such as a video projector.įor further info about real holograms and 3D lenticulars, please see our hologram and lenticular pages The word hologram has now become a generic term for pretty much anything 3D, but a real hologram has parallax ( ) so you can actually look around the 3D image. The projection looks very much like a "holographic type effect" but it should be noted that the Pepper's ghost technique is not a real hologram in the true sense of the word but the effect certainly does look "holographic". In Victorian days, the audience would often pay to just see the ghost (holographic type effect) on stage! There is no doubt that the Pepper's Ghost effect can be a visually powerful effect when produced correctly.īy producing digital content and using a video projector or LED panels (or a display monitor for smaller systems), it is possible to "3D project" real video footage of products, life sized or bigger than life sized people, creatures and any sort of content when using computer graphic imagery (CGI). The reflection can look 3D and very real if the illusion is produced well. You see yourself as a reflection from the window and the view out of the window.

It's like looking out of a window at nightime.

Pepper's Ghost works by reflecting the original (brightly lit) content (an actor dressed as a ghost - see above) through an upbacked mirror.
