Holograms
Holograms are one of the few guaranteed ways to really take people's breath away. They generate huge amounts of buzz and can even be used to bring artists back from the dead. Twitter went into a meltdown as Tupac 'played' Coachella, while a hologram of the late Frank Sinatra made a surprise appearance at Simon Cowell's 50th birthday party and who can forget Michael Jackson coming back to life for the Billboard Music awards.
We can create any size of hologram, from small holoboxX units 30cm cubed, to large sized event holograms. We know how to create the best content for your holographic experience and how to stage it to maximum effect. Its an amazing technology which is remembered long after the event is over.
We know budgets can be an issue with Holograms, which is why we work hard to provide the best solution for your budget. While you may want the largest, most high tech hologram for your event, your budget doesen't. We have alternatives which would probably fit better within your budget while still giving you an amazing experience. Let us work with you to get the best bang for your buck.
Holograms
"# Holy S**t. There's a hologram on stage" Actual quote from a recent hologram event..
Although this spectral illusion is known as Pepper’s Ghost, the technique was first developed by the British inventor, Henry Dircks (1806-1873). After working with magic lanterns in theater productions, a popular illusionary technique called phantasmagoria, he developed a new technique to make it seem as though a ghost was really on the stage, rather than in the background, as was the case with the magic lantern shows.
Yet, he couldn’t quite figure out how to incorporate the trick into a theatre performance without requiring costly alterations to the theatre. It was a chemist from London’s Polytechnic Institute, John Henry Pepper (1821-1900), who came up with a simpler way of incorporating the illusion into a stage performance.
In 1863, Pepper premiered this new technique in a production of Charles Dickens’ The Haunted Man, and from then on it was known as Pepper’s Ghost. Naturally, Dircks was none too happy about this title given to the illusion he had developed.
The apparition one sees in a Pepper’s Ghost illusion is the reflection of an object or figure hidden from view. A sheet of film is installed between the viewer and the room or stage in which the ghost will appear. This film is angled so that whatever it will reflect can be hidden from the audience in a secret room. The hidden room is an entirely black mirror-image of the stage where the actual “ghosts” are placed.
When it is time to make the ghosts appear in front of the audience, the hidden figures are lit and their reflection appears in the glass. The figures in the mirror-image room will be arranged so that their reflection corresponds with where they should appear on stage. For example, if you wanted to make a ghost appear at a table, the room visible to the audience would already have a table and a chair in it. However, in the mirror-image room, a figure would be sitting on a black chair, or similar prop, positioned so that the reflection lines up with the table and chair in the main room. When a light is turned on the figure, it will appear as though a ghost is sitting at the table visible to the audience.
Here's some of the clients we've created holograms for over the years.
They've each been special in their own way and we thank them for pushing the boundaries on what is possible.
