In Virtual actors take to the stage Actors working in real time from remote locations have been beamed onto a stage where they performed with live, in-the-flesh actors. The technology could mean future theatergoers might attend plays where one or more actors are working outside the venue, even in a different country, or from their own homes.

In one case, an actor was beamed into a play while he was doing the performance in another state.

Although he performed in Florida, his body was ‘beamed’ onto a stage at Bradley University in Illinois, where he performed ‘with’ live actors there, as well as with actors beamed in from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Both 3D and 2D sets consisting of multiple screens and special-effects lighting that helped to give the impression that all the actors, remote or not, existed in a single space.

Link: ABC Science Online