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Although we don’t have enough multitouch products to test for the moment, Obscura Digital went ahead and designed a holographic multitouch display. First, check out the demo clip:

What you see in the clip is not a finalized product. It is rather a preview of what fully interactive holographic displays should be looking like in the next few years. According to Gizmodo, the system is dubbed VisionAire and is still being developed by Obscura Digital that has adapted proprietary multitouch software to the Musion Eyeliner hologram projection system. The Musion Eyeliner was first used for the holographic Gorillaz effect during the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.

Do take notice that you need a big stage for this to work properly. So it would be designed exclusively for big-budget presentations However, the effect is much more impressive than any standard multitouch surface, since you only wave your hands in the air. That might prove to be a good thing in some situations, but in other it might as well confuse the user, as the system doesn't provide tactile feedback.

Thus, in order to operate the VisionAire, it could hel if we first took some lessons interpretive dancing. Without tactile feedback, we won’t be able to operate the system like Tom Cruise does it in Minority Report. There’s always room for improvement, so version 2.0 could be introducing the lacking features at a later stage.