“Please let me introduce to you my guitarist here today."The band however is playing live from an entirely different location - a small studio in East London.
This means lead singer Dan Olsen can perform in front of and interact with his crowd in a safe, socially distanced manner. “You don’t need glasses, you don’t need a headset. You’re sitting here as if you’re watching a regular stage show and other than when the occasional glitch on the video remind everybody that what we’re watching is a video rather than a real person.”
The technology is a modern twist on a Victorian technique known as ‘Pepper’s ghost' involving a huge sheet of glass.“The image that hits the projection screen is actually a 2D image but because it’s being filmed against black with a lot of back light and side light the image appears volumetric.”