Elizabeth Hunter strikes a Hamlet pose with a prop skull.

Theater in augmented reality: Technology bridges audience and stage

Elizabeth Hunter, assistant professor of drama, envisions a world where you can pull up the latest staging of a classic play on an augmented reality headset in your own living room. Hunter uses Microsoft’s HoloLens, an augmented reality device typically used for research applications, to stage productions that allow the audience to see events from the perspectives of a play’s characters.