Now living at Victoria Point, she and business partner Scott West have created a company in which holograms can be used for signage and menus.  The stage is set for this to become a reality at business chains throughout Australia in 2018.

Ms Oliffe and Mr West, 20 have started working with several prominent companies to create logos, signs, menus and information via 3D projections and all are expected to roll out in 2018.  The first holographic projection available for puchase should be available in January.

“We can change a sign for example with a click of a button and it’s not all that expensive to set up.  It costs about the same as what is available now,” Mr West said.

The interest stemmed from putting on George Orwell’s 1984 by their production company 4 Stage Productions in early October, the first to use 3D holographic projections in live theatre.  

“It was packed houses and it was suggested that this sort of technology could work anywhere,” Mr West said.

“We have since set up a new company for this purpose, and named it 3D 4 Stage.  We have also employed a videographer and marketing person but we are envisioning a fairly rapid growth,” Mr West said,

The technology is the brainchild of  Ms Oliffe and she is believed to be the first female entrepreneur as a CEO leading the way in this technology.

Ms Oliffe who attended Good Shepherd Catholic school in Mount Isa and whose father works as a razor bore operator at the mine for the past 34 years, said she was grateful for an upbringing filled with opportunity.

“I did a computer course for young and gifted women at school and learned there about still animation and programing.  You could say that was the beginning,” she said.

At age 17, Ms Oliffe also directed the school’s performance of Black Rock as a student run production.  She left Mount Isa at age 18 to study medical science at QUT, leaving there for a drama degree at University of Queensland.  She did not complete the degree when an opportunity came up to work with Bazil Grumble in children’s theatre.

Mr West said he met Ms Oliffe while acting in Charlotte’s Web with the Brisbane Arts Theatre.  Since then, they have put on several shows and have toured two of them around Queensland.

Ms Oliffe said the use of holographic projections had huge potential and could for example be used by the military to create a full sized hologram to say goodnight to a child.  

“We are currently working with someone whose Mum has passed away and we can create a hologram in his home.  There will be hologram technology in use residentially in 2018.  This is going to blow up and become common useage.  It is the way of the future,” Mr West said.