A system for directing an emergency evacuation within a building composed of one or more rooms is provided. The system comprising: a fire panel (180); one or more fire detectors (114) configured to detect a fire in each of the one or more rooms; a fire panel (180) in electronic communication with each of the one or more fire detectors (114), the fire panel (180) being configured to determine evacuation information in response to whether a fire is detected in each of the one or more rooms; and one or more hologram systems (120) in electronic communication with the fire panel (180), wherein each of the one or more hologram systems (120) is configured to generate a hologram in the one or more rooms to convey evacuation information.