Oh this is … this is one of the strangest solo projects I've ever seen. "Volumetric Display using an Acoustically Trapped Particle". Dude has two speakers facing each other, they emit a wave that contains enough force a light foam bead is forced to levitate in the air between them, then by varying it he can move it around, and by changing the light of an LED shining on it he can give it color. He can draw basic 3D shapes and persistence of vision makes them appear real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCC1C5KIeUA
A Volumetric Display using an Acoustically Trapped Particle

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@mcc you can actually make a really simple acoustic levitator with just two of those transducers just facing each other, theyre cheap
@chfour yeah, it seems the hard part is not causing the levitation effect but controlling it
@mcc well yea then you have to adjust the frequency/phase/amplitude of all the transducers in real time so that it creates standing waves exactly where you want the ball to be i think