Holographic Traditional Irish Musicians

This is a project I did in collaboration with my intern Blake Tannehill. We used AI to motion capture traditional Irish musicians and dancers over the summer, 2024. We then brought them to life as holograms using Godot Engine. The holograms play AI generated traditional Irish music. We used modified Quest 3 headsets to display the holograms and brought the project to Audio Garden Festival and Dublin Maker 2024 where many people got to experience it. Their reactions were wild! In future work, we plan to use LLMS, speech recognition and various technologies to make the holograms more lifelike and responsive. Also planning to train the holograms for tasks such as teaching traditional Irish music and dance and computer science! With thanks to TU Dublin Growth Hub and the the School of Computer Science for their support of this innovative project.