Imagine walking by a tradeshow booth where a 3D character is holding court in mid-air, and you can wave your hand right through him. At special events, characters can be projected onto transparent film that can be moved on the stage. 3D holograms are a reality, and ours can talk!

3D Heads Floating in Space and Talking

We searched the country for 3D floating image displays and we found the best.

A Floating Image Display projects the animation out in front of a box, and it is visible when a person stands right in front of the box.

Of course, CHOPS' or Cybrina's head stands out, literally, from the display by about 20 inches or so, from the cabinet, which is covered with a piece of black, anti-reflective glass. Viewers can see the image clearly within a viewing cone about 30 to 40 degrees wide in front of it.

The full-color, moving, talking images captivate the eye. The strange comments tickle the funny bone. It's really an new experience for everyone, since this is the first time that our interactive characters (or anyone's) have been shown with such an unusual video display device.

Floating Image Displays (FID) come in a variety of sizes, from a small tabletop version to a couple of kiosk-sized units. In some cases, we can incorporate a back field into the 3D image, using 3D graphics to really give the display depth, along with the front field objects, which would be the talking characters. The art for the backfield can be rich and complex, using color and shape to project a virtual reality experience right into thin air, without a pair of 3D glasses in sight.

The housing is a high-quality cabinet that is easily integrated into a tradeshow booth, and is available in several beautiful laminates, or it can be integrated into a custom exhibit easily. We can supply exact dimensions and specifications for your particular application.

The tradeshow booth of the future may have several of these displays with talking characters like CHOPS or Cybrina appearing on them, guiding attendees, handing out T-shirts and doing product demos in real time. It's something people will remember and talk about, long after the hall's doors close. Floating 3D heads that can interact with people is our speciality and we can do it for you today.

For more information, visit Digital Video Enterprises, and be sure to say that CHOPS sent you.

Large Scale 3D Characters

In cooperation with an AV company now developing large-scale 3D projection, we are able to bring CHOPS to corporate meetings or special events and make him jump right out of the screen, ten feet tall.

Special glasses are used for this effect, along with the company's custom projection system, but you get the same results that the Disney people and others have used very successfully for years, with one main difference. Our characters are animated live, so they can speak directly to people in the audience, inches away from their faces, using 3D projection.

This is very new ground for us and our co-producers, but it is such an exciting area, that we know it is just what a high-tech company wants to impress their staff and make that next meeting unforgettable.

Another technique that works well is the use of TransScreen material, which is a completely transparent screen, for use like a clear window. It's easy to project the CHOPS image on this, but it's only recommended for low-ambient-light situations. (www.laser-magic.com)

For more information and a quote on the costs of bringing this show to your next production, please give us a call. Since the character work is all done live, production times can be very short and not much advance preparation is needed.