Digital and Physical. Flatness and 3D. Touchless and texture. But when you take the ethereal, touchless, non-physical projection over a tactile object, we manage to mix our attributes.
projects a toaster over itself, painted white. An expensive affair in which toast is reusable but tasteless and untoasted. The signifier over the signified.
projects a video of sunlight through leaves into small model of the room in which it was filmed. This is next to a model with moving parts and lighting that recreates this scene and effects more physically. Yet neither actually look like leaves. Is which is more real really the question?
completing, perfecting physical works with projections that are all signified no guts
Timetable proects images over a series of dials so that their appearance (and function) change as the thing they are controlling changes.

Medial Stage and Costume Design is a set and costumes for an Opera entirely created by projections.

Michael Naimark
Displacements 2005 (1980-84) projects video over a living room painted white.

Tony Ourslermay not strictly fit the idea of projected reality, as his video overlay's don't attempt to trick, simulate or extend, but
they sure are alive.
