When looking around for a AR project, I remembered a youtube video I had watched of a live concert that was an animated character on stage using screens and other effects to make it look like the character was actually on the stage. This was a video of the live concert of Hatsune Miku, a character from the voice synthesizer program called VOCALOID. The way that it works is through a twist on an old illusion called Pepper’s Ghost. The image is projected from a regular projector overhead pointing down. Then it hits a thin metalized film at a 45 degree angle. The film reflects the image and is pretty much see-through without the image on it. This allows the image to look like the character is either walking or floating around on stage. It also allows the character to look 3D even though the image is actually only 2D. The reason that this was so compelling was the idea that we’re getting closer to having actual holograms that we could watch for entertainment. And it allowed a character whose voice is pretty much the only concrete thing about her to have a live concert for fans to enjoy.