Tupac Shakur At Coachella. The company that makes it happen talks to BBC. Includes more hologram examples from the tech + Links MUSION SYSTEMS LTD www.musion.co.uk twitter.com www.facebook.com www.youtube.com James Rock (director) Ian O’Connell (director) Uwe Maass (superhero) Sanj Surati (head of Music) The “old theatre trick” is Peppers Ghost… Peppers Ghost History: (from the Musion website) Pepper’s Ghost was invented by Professor John Henry Pepper and English engineer Henry Dircks in the 19th Century. The Eyeliner™ 3D Projection System was conceived by Mr Uwe Maass, who designed the system after researching the old theatre illusion Pepper’s Ghost. Introduced into theatres in the 1860′s, Pepper’s Ghost startled theatre goers with an effect that allowed live people or objects to slowly materialize into a scene. This illustration shows one early variation from the perspective of the stage. In this case the “ghost” is an actor located forward of and below the stage floor. The glass pane illustrates the reflection of the offstage “ghost” while the leftmost “ghost” simulates what the audiences actually see. Later versions of the invention included a lens to improve on the image but this was as far as Professor Pepper and Engineer Dircks managed to take the illusion, the main stumbling block being the inherent weight of glass and the fact that when a really large piece was set at a 45 degree angle it would brake under its own weight. Pepper’s Ghost images have also been …