True eye contact transparent Augmented Reality (AR) telepresence used for specialty applications where high visual impact matters. DVE has been called upon by theme parks and entertainment destinations to design high-end visual effects. DVE’s knowledge of visual effects is expansive. DVE has applied that knowledge in creating a line of transparent telepresence displays, each with an optically embedded camera for eye contact. The displays provide true augmented reality where 3D appearing video images can be seen in the middle of the physical space of the room. DVE’s expansive patent portfolio includes the use, as illustrated in more than twenty patented independent claims, of the classic Pepper’s Ghost illusion for eye contact telepresence. This stunning illusion, when thoughtfully stage crafted, creates a very impressive image of a person appearing to sit on the other side of a table in the actual room environment, unconfined by the borders of a display screen. The image appears to be floating on a crystal clear piece of glass. DVE has custom podium versions of transparent AR telepresence and all the DVE telepresence product line (40, 46, 50, and 65) can be converted to enable this impressive illusion. Imagine a sales kiosk or a receptionist who virtually appears in a lobby. This is just the tip of the iceberg of creative applications for this technology for live telepresence and recorded presentations. Also, transparent AR telepresence can present amazingly vivid, 3-D appearing objects with a wide field-of-view.