Musion Eyeliner

The Musion Eyeliner is a proprietary high definition video projection system that allows moving images to appear within a live stage setting. The system is patented.

The system works as a modern commercial variation of a stage illusion called Pepper's ghost. Thin metalized film is placed across the front of the stage at an angle of 45 degrees towards the audience; recessed below the screen is a bright image supplied by an LED screen or powerful projector. When viewed from the audience's perspective, the reflected images appear to be on the stage.

Because the system uses a thin film as its reflective surface, the screen is relatively low-cost and light-weight, and can cover a large area without seams (thus helping maintain the illusion); however, this lightness can make the screen vibrate due to atmospheric effects such as wind, when outdoors; or powerful sound systems, when indoors.

The system is intended to "create the illusion of life-size, full colour, 3D moving images". It consists of a flat, two-dimensional image that produces the illusion of being three-dimensional and suspended in free space. It does not, for instance, recreate stereoscopy as most 3D displays do, nor is it a hologram.

Aspects of the technology are currently the subject of a US patent application.

Musion Intellectual Property is the patent owner.

The system was first exhibited at an installation at the Swarovski Museum in Austria in 1995.

Applications of the technology include tele-conferencing and mixed-media entertainment and educational events. It was used at the Live Earth conference produced by Musion and OMG Sounds Productions, as well as at the later concerts of the band Gorillaz, where it was used to allow the band's cartoon musicians to join the actual musicians on stage. The Genki Rockets also utilize the technology for any of their "live" events, due to the lead singer, Lumi, who appears in the group's animated music videos, being a fictional character.

The 2009 tour of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds used a Musion Eyeliner system which projected an image of Richard Burton's face in the role of the Journalist.

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