A fog display, fog screen, vapor screen or vapor display is a system that uses haze machines or water vapor to create a semi-transparent wall, or "curtain" of suspended particles which trapped in a thin sheet (laminar flow) of air and are illuminated by a projector, in order to produce a display whose images seem to float in mid air. Several commercial systems exist, such as FogScreen, Displair and Heliodisplay. There is also an open-source variant being developed called Hoverlay II
The fog screen projection system is mainly composed of a projector, a fog screen generator, a water tank, a computer, a controller, holographic presentation content (videos and images), and some auxiliary equipment, such as wires. This system can be expanded using multiple projectors to create a three-dimensional image, thus becoming a volumetric 3D display.
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"How To: DIY (Improved) Inexpensive Fog Screen - Blog". proSauce. 2012-06-10. Retrieved 2013-10-23. http://prosauce.org/blog/2012/6/10/how-to-diy-improved-inexpensive-fog-screen.html ↩
Ragan, Sean Michael (4 January 2012). "Princess Leia "Hologram" Vapor Display". MAKE. Blog.makezine.com. Retrieved 23 October 2013. http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/04/princess-leia-hologram-vapor-display/ ↩
Hoverlay II github page https://github.com/makertum/Hoverlay-II ↩
Makertum Hoverlay II device http://makertum.com/en/hoverlay-2/ ↩
"Fog Screen". klmultimedia. https://www.klmultimedia.com/fog-projection.html ↩
Stevens, Tim (17 March 2011). "3D fog projection display brings purple bunnies to life, just in time to lay chocolate eggs (video)". Engadget. https://www.engadget.com/2011/03/17/3d-fog-projection-display-brings-purple-bunnies-to-life-just-in/ ↩