the Tupac hologram

welp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVGIRsKXdo

how far away are we from a hologram doing a full, nationwide tour?

i think i would bite the bullet and see a full lil boosie hologram show

I think this is a cooler gimmick than 3d movies, I would maybe go see some historic shows hologramed up

o_O

40% of the local trending topics when i logged on twitter this morning were about pac and/or holograms

I wonder if his family's getting his full performance rate or just an appearance fee

i know this is all about idealizing tupac at his prime, but i kinda feel like 41 year-old 2012 tupac would spend less time with his shirt off

well his prime was his 'alive years' so unless you are suggesting they age him w/ a computer and add a shirt...

I'm going to hell for this one, but...

...and bullet wounds?

i kinda feel like i need to add a drudge report siren that says 'sarcasm' to my posts for iatee's benefit whenever he is around

sorry I forgot about your great sense of humor jon

somewhere will.i.am is fuming

america behind the curve as usual

have other countries had dead stars perform via hologram?

I'm not sure, but I am sure dayo is about to tell you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI

yeah but that's not a dead person

dayo coming hard with the Idoru

she's dead in the sense that she doesn't exist! hah!

presumably this tech, although I think the britishes used it for their fake musicians prior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musion_Eyeliner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISVqiRXCc4k

this is incredible but i dont understand why they didnt make a giant tupac, maybe the tech isnt there idk

i think the idea was that it was more uncanny to have a lifesize holopac standing next to real life dr. dre and look semi-real, wouldn't have the same impact if he was standing 50 feet high

it's interesting that before they show they pre-announced the hologram nate dogg but let this be a surprise, maybe there'd be more talk about nate right now if he'd been a surprise along w/ pac

i dont care what anyone says, go giant tupac every time

they could just make dr. dre 50 feet high

giant tupac w/mini nate dogg in his pocket

if they'd had this technology 15 years ago we could've been saved from some really terrible posthumous videos with a toon pac:

http://cdn4.wn.com/vp/i/bc/f096feeac0d46f.jpg

Are there videos of hologram Nate Dogg? I feel like he got shafted :(

i wonder if they purposely looked for a clip to hologramize where his pants werent too large so as not to offend current sensibilities

oh god i forgot there was a claymation pac too

http://emptyv.multimedia.cx/images/2pac-doforlove-2.jpg

they should bring all the digital pacs together for one incredible once in a lifetime concert experience

Check this one out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtMnwZKOtwA

It almost looks like Celine Dion is really there.

this technology could also be used to create 'rock n roll heaven' w/ all the dead classic rock dudes jamming, boomers would pay good money to see that

they should bring all the digital pacs together for one incredible once in a lifetime concert experience

― lag∞n, Monday, April 16, 2012 10:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They do in Pleasant Plains' Reoccurring 'Mulholland Drive/All Eyez On Me' Nightmare

luckyy

may you live in interesting times

this is so rad

may you be blessed with high quality holograms from more interesting times gone by

For the very first time, I wish I had been there at Coachella, mad lifted.

You thought the eye at the Blue Oyster Cult show was watching you.

*buys stock in hologram company*

Go home and there's Tupac at the top of your stairs.

trying not to google tupac + "minstrel show" to see if anyone's gone there

poor guy is dead and they're still making him rap and dance

this could lead to exquisite new highs of poor taste in mash up culture

holograms of biggie and pac forgiving each other and hugging in the afterlife

"Shouts to Obi Wan Kenobi, my only muthafuckin hope!"

cant wait for the exciting genre(s) of holorap/holowave /indigram

i like things that make me feel like im actively living in the future instead of passively succumbing to the present

thinking abt how futurists want to upload our minds to the internet and become immortal and how itd effect tupacs art to be disembodied, just occasionally projected for profit, the deep longing for corporeality in rap form

totally getting a hologram of myself projected at my funeral

^^^ as a surpise appearance would be even better

this technology could also be used to create 'rock n roll heaven' w/ all the dead classic rock dudes jamming, boomers would pay good money to see that

figure this will happen on at least some scale, but that no one will really care. maybe holo-beatles could be a thing? figure the big money is in simulcasting "event" concerts featuring tween stars like beiber and the jonas brothers, or whatever the equivalent is these days.

also having it climb out of the coffin xp

thinking abt how futurists want to upload our minds to the internet and become immortal and how itd effect tupacs art to be disembodied, just occasionally projected for profit, the deep longing for corporeality in rap form

^ good short story idea at least

bless

wait you know what would be cool, watching a hologrammed super bowl

I kind of feel like I'll just have enough money in my estate to pay for a 3d model of me, but they won't have enough money for animation so it'll just be my likeness performing Tupac songs with his voice

wait you know what would be cool, watching a hologrammed super bowl

― iatee, Monday, April 16, 2012 11:32 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup courtside seats for all

yeah, hologramming of real-life stuff in real time will be big. plus we could all have chess sets featuring monsters!

eh chess is just a game for computers to play w/ each other

Hologram Pac was totally lip-synching.

hologrammed farmville maybe

would like to see gr8080 collaborate with hologram chaki on new 'found IRL' picture thread.

keep wanting to be a pedant and say this isn't a hologram, but whatevs

hologram dom p could offer zingers until later discovered that he's just a projection on a hanging bedsheet.

dude

what if

It was a holla! - gram.

this is fucking bullshit. not a hologram.

if this isn't a hologram, does that make it a hologram of a hologram

what if we're all holgrams.

ain't no hollagram girl

what if... holograms

wait you know what would be cool, watching a hologrammed super bowl

Looking forward to Holmgren Hologram.

i saw this and it was amazing, but hard to get a feel for how it was in person, given that i was watching it in 2-D. i guess i sort of just doubt this is an actual hologram? don't you need to use some crazy 3-D capture camera technology to make a hologram? you can't just extrapolate a hologram from video footage

(i realize there is probably a listicle that explains all this)

if it were a hologram you'd be able to move from side to side and see a different angle of tupac, but no such luck

they can make 3d movies from 2d movies, like u dont see pac from all angles, just front on but he looks a lil popping out

you can't just extrapolate a hologram from video footage

This pretty much looks like a 3d computer model of Tupac which could be kind of like a hologram, but you'd have to be able to actually pan around. Everyone there saw the same angle, no matter which side of the stage they were on. He just probably looked kind of distorted.

For a really-real hologram, they'd have had to capture him using a camera that picked up all available light etc etc and it'd have to be video of him from life

tbh i don't really give a shit about holograms, wake me when we get a Star Trek: The Next Generation-style holodeck

Were you all wearing your special hologram glasses?

http://couchcutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/medium_trek-dream-team-geordi.jpg

we were promised holograms

tbf the hologram didnt even look that much like tupac

http://i.imgur.com/Y5UfM.jpg

holorihanna would prob be more popular than holopac

sure as hell didnt look much like the tupac i ran into at the mall coupla weeks back

it's interesting that before they show they pre-announced the hologram nate dogg but let this be a surprise

Coulda swore I heard something about this on Saturday as the follow-on from the Nate Dogg thing.

yeah maybe...but the nate thing was pretty well known in the press like a week ago, no mention of 2pac at the time

http://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gif
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwy4lvRD1K1qdlh1io1_400.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gif
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http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwy4lvRD1K1qdlh1io1_400.gif

the Tupac hologram

Heavens! ;-)

Hahaha

Tupac is in hell right now totally pissed off that you guys are making fun of the hologram he sent up.

http://oi39.tinypic.com/bakxt.jpg

is this real or
https://twitter.com/#!/HologramTupac

"We worked with Dr. Dre on this and it was Dre's vision to bring this back to life," said Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, the San Diego company that created the hologram. "It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the technology to make it come to life."

Smith said he wasn't allowed to talk about the creative aspects of the production — including how the hologram was able to seemingly perform the set in synch with Snoop and whether all the vocals were 'Pac's — but he did say that his company has the ability to recreate long-dead figures and visually recreate them in the studio. "You can take their likenesses and voice and ... take people that haven't done concerts before or perform music they haven't sung and digitally recreate it," he said.

The hologram was the latest visual magic pulled off by AV, which is also behind the 2005 Grammys performance featuring Madonna and the holographic members of the Gorillaz, as well as holograms used in concert by Celine Dion and the Black Eyed Peas.

The Tupac hologram was several months in the planning and took nearly four months to create in a studio and though Smith was not able to reveal the exact price tag for the illusion, he said a comparable one could cost anywhere from $100,000 to more than $400,000 to pull off. "I can't say how much that event cost, but I can say it's affordable in the sense that if we had to bring entertainers around world and create concerts across the country, we could put [artists] in every venue in the country," he said.

The life-size Tupac was amazingly life-like, down to the late rapper's signature tattoos, Timberland boots, jewelry and movements, all of which were also recreated under the direction of Dre.

http://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gif
pac to enterprise...

is that from real footage of tupac? otherwise seems like you could just get a body double, do some motion capture, pull the same tricks that movie companies do to cash in when a star dies during filming

no that's not how he died

of course it's real footage of him from an actual concert he performed, what else would it be?

lil wayne

actually the article am0n posted makes it sound like that's maybe not entirely the case, nvm

lol sd I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not

they used a archival recording of him saying "what up, coachella"

http://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gifhttp://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/poochie.gif

yeah i haven't seen the footage or anything so i was talking outta my ass, sorry

Looked like a good 3d model that had been animated either using motion capture or with software that does video analysis or maybe just a really good animator. The "smoothness" of it might be off due to the video quality I saw, but it really doesn't look incredibly different from a realistic video game character.

Basically what I'd saying is they just projected the Tupac character from his upcoming cameo in the new Grand Theft Auto.

citation: watched the video about ten times on my phone at work

it looked jerky and video gamey to me too

definitely motion capture imo

feel like if it were cribbed from an existing tupac concert video, the original footage would have been revealed on youtube by now

Kind of funny that they don't want to share the "secrets" of how he interacted

hologram dudes, it looks like Tupac was doing some sort of idling standing there animation and then does the "react to Snoop saying canned line" move when you hit the circle button on your PS3 controller

as a dead man in a hollogram he's doing better then these fake ass rappers alive lol so much they make a hollogram :D
donaldc60 14 minutes ago

http://ridwankhodabux.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/16289-84953-mk1png-550x.jpg

do our younger generation still kno 2pac and the influenced he left for other rappers and niggers/wiggers who were in a strugle to get ut of the thug life/ghetto.?

― WhO WaNtZ 2 b A 2pAc!, Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:47 AM (7 years ago)

there's a failed Cheryl Lloyd single buried in there somewhere

WWTHD

strugle

Dr. Drenkenstein

2Pac hologram jokes are real surface level. could use some deeper cuts

Like, does he only have one holographic testicle?

not a lot of substance to him

tbh, "The Tupac Hologram" sounds like one of the lesser Deep Space Nine episode titles

Can I get the Tupac Hologram to babysit my children, or should I stick with the Michael Jordan cutout fastened to an electric train set;.

I, Tupac

Yeah my guess is the CGI route, and they could motion capture some of his movements from old footage and apply those to 3D armatures. Or just have a guy wear a suit and capture it there.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g265/hipandpop/2007/tupac_shakur.jpg

That's the Stone Mountain statue? Every time I go, I forget to check it out.

Tupac Shakur, 19th Century wilderness preacher.

oh lord tupac please talk to these holograms

new bourne movie finally named: the tupac hologram

also name of new sherlock holmes movie, weird

and these suckers project it in 3-d and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_m0YtPN5vgmI/TN4E8Ry0BnI/AAAAAAAAVLY/meyWTLAQ3F4/dancing%20bear.gif

Now they need to do an MJ one and the world will be alittle less of a struggle
thetiger117 1 minute ago

thetiger117 otm

bugger

i remember when i first heard of "the Hologram" on the internet, it was so nice to have 2pac back, i welcomed him

:)

http://i.imgur.com/RKsoK.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2lm9nq4ay1roxf0bo1_500.jpg

Another Star Wars 'shop, but better imo.

Tupac Hologram and the I Ching

"Tupac Hologram" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.[81] According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur simultaneously. He conceived this idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT.[81]
McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which purportedly produces a waveform known as "Tupac Hologram" or the "Tupogram". Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching,[52] the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and sociocultural evolution. He believed that the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of November 2012. When he later discovered this date's proximity to the end of the 13th b'ak'tun of the Maya calendar, he revised his hypothesis so that the two dates matched.[82]

i cannot tell you how happy it makes me to see 'terence mckenna' and 'tupac hologram' in the same post

it's pretty badass that the song they had him do was "hail mary" imo

http://vimeo.com/40316092

yeah otm some dude - it was in my head all day after I watched this, such an awesome groove but a pretty left-field choice for the big reveal

"WADDUP TAMPA G O P!" - Ronald Reagan hologram, 2012

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwauq6YLJn1qcccz1o1_400.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/zybwo8.jpg

John Lennon would be the obvious next choice, right?

they should do the guy from blind melon

MJ

Steve Jobs at 2015 Mac Expo

steve jobs & dimebag darrell

Mick Mars

plato

The drummer from Def Leppard's other arm.

mohammed

Euronymous

Don passantino

"WADDUP TAMPA G O P!" - Ronald Reagan hologram, 2012

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, April 16, 2012 11:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know what would be even more hilarious, if they did ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"What the fuck is up, national review cruise??"

Breitbart holoheckler.

Apparently it wasn't a real hologram.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/tupac-hologram-merely-pretty-cool-optical-illusion.ars

wait it wasnt a hologram, just a cool optical illusion

the Tupac cool optical illusion

don't feel like dayo's post will make sense on the excelsior thread but fuck I lol'd

The Tupac Projection

Projecting Shakur: How A Dead Man Serenaded the Masses at Coachella

The Tupac Supremacy

how far away are we from a hologram doing a full, nationwide tour?

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 16, 2012 9:44 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

not too far away, apparently

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46182-2pac-hologram-might-be-going-on-tour/

MJ i think is the super obvious pick to do a worldwide hologram tour. he was basically a hologram for the last two decades of his career anyway.

i'd be into seeing something like a live Dre/Snoop tour w/ a few Pac hologram songs as its stage show killer app, but the idea of buying a ticket to see just that is pretty depressing

what kind of whimsical latinate title will the tupac hologram cirque du soleil show have?

THUGLIFE obv

Tupaque

hah

It could always be worse, much worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH4AgH3CBBg

MJ i think is the super obvious pick to do a worldwide hologram tour.

The Man In The Mirror

xxxp: I mean, their other shows based on artists are called "Love" (Beatles), "Viva Elvis" (duh) and "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour" (also duh) so I think we're going to be lucky if it isn't called "2PAC: An Urban Poet Gunned Down In The Prime Of His Life By An Unknown Assailant Makes The Perfect Soundtrack For Chinese Contortionists"

Bellagio, 2014: Yo.

the funny thing i think is gonna be now a bunch of profitable past-their-prime artists are probably going to do these elaborate 3d scans of themselves performing now so that after they die we can have a middle-aged Madonna or U2 hologram instead of a youthful '80s version

Rien, Mais une Partie de Gangster

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2m0jbLVGm1qlhvawo1_500.jpg

i find this all disturbing beyond belief but i feel like 15 year old me would be psyched at a world with an idoru tupac

I think doing it as a surprise at Coachella was cool, but having people pay with the expectations of seeing Holo Tupac seems really shitty to me.

sorry, but this is still the best combination of real/animation in the live gig sense :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRLM7NTB7S0

or of course there was this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_gnMOom7kE

there were plans to 'tour' this type of show live, but the costs were massively prohibitive.

such a shame as that could have made the plastic beach shows a lot more more interesting.

hope that I live to see something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8

2012: A holographic Steve Jobs introduces "the new iPhone"
2015: For the tour's 25th anniversary, Madonna stages a holographic Blonde Ambition tour that's 1990 all over again
2017: Peter Hook wins intellectual property rights to the look of Joy Division in 1977. Virtual Joy Division finally complete that US tour.
2019: For its 50th anniversary, Woodstock is holographically recreated and runs continuously. 3 days of peace and music but without the mud!

Also... 2019: There are rumors of a holographic Stones playing a holographic Altamont

the holographic Grateful Dead decide to stay home and jam

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/557737_10150713354648145_19343183144_9608714_1925203936_n.jpg

lol death!!!

lol @ drowning pool

;_; @ jay reatard

o I didnt know someone from drowning pool died - a markers is probably mad at me rite now

the holographic version g.g. allin = best option - if you have such a desire

(though the placing of him above hendrix/led zep etc = madness .. )

lol death!!!

― goole, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:57 PM

chuck schuldiner RIP

Doesn't need to be a dead person, could be either Gallagher brother.

^^^^^

ummmmm ..

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxp97yL1rv1r974tyo1_r1_500.gif

o I didnt know someone from drowning pool died - a markers is probably mad at me rite now

― dayo

\(^o^)/

There is a Drowning Pool live album called Loudest Common Denominator.

i would go see a holographic rodney dangerfield in a heartbeat

rappin rodney got my attention as well

Thought "The Tupac Hologram" was a new band name.

apparently the guy who made the hologram was on bbc breakfast this morning, don't know what was said; i like to think that the breakfast hosts grilled him on the definition of the word hologram, humphrys style

they presenters called it "a remarkably realistic 3D projection"

to his credit the dude calls it "an old theatre trick"

a coworker just emailed this to me

i would go see a holographic rodney dangerfield in a heartbeat

will stick with my memory of seeing him carry a window fan out of Bloomingdales.

aw :)

the strangest haiku

*dances on top of SUV*

http://www.eonline.com/news/marc_malkin/move_over_tupacmdashmichael_jackson/309702?cmpid=sn-000000-twitterfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=twitterfeed&utm_campaign=twitterfeed_topstories&%3Fcmpid=eonline-twitter&dlvrit=48939

even in death amy winehouse still not trusted with a spot on the bill of hologram festival ;_;

"I just wish Michael was here with us, but I'm sure his spirit will be in the house," Jackie exclusively told me this morning.

^ this sentence made me lol

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2p27yS2Wo1qz5tv3o1_1280.png

but I'm sure his spirit will be in the house

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrgmobBLWC1qjuk1p.jpg

So if the foil is at an angle, does that mean that the apparitions have to be created all pulled-out and distorted like those "3-D" sidewalk chalk drawings?

That would be my guess.

2012: THE FUTURE IS FINALLY HERE AND IT KICKS ASS

Plz let them re-create the music video for "Can You Feel It" with 100-ft. tall holograms.

^^^^^

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2p27yS2Wo1qz5tv3o1_1280.png

haha cool that is the exact same principle behind the teleprompter i operate at work

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2owtksBUm1ru8pjto1_1280.jpg

some dude, does your studio look like a wayne white painting?

http://artstormer.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/no-wayne-white-0508-lg.jpg

Well played sir.

xp to forks
amazing that the pug gets a face and nothing else does. And the Bichon gets a nice curly tail :)

http://i.imgur.com/qE18o.jpg

The Who clearly missed an opportunity here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/olympics-organizers-ask-keith-moon-to-play-closing-ceremony-20120413

wow, "The Symphony of Rock" sounds like it's going to be great!

Drake 1 Hr(s), 5 Min(s) Ago

YOLO

Hologram Tupac REPLIED 24 Min(s), 17 Sec(s) Ago

Speak for yourself.

ha

R.I.P. it was a hologram

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/11/technology/digital-domain-bankrupt/index.html

Can't wait for the Makaveli hologram!!

Tupac hologram now in secret Cuban exile with the real Tupac, who is very mystified by this turn of events

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120628094638/memoryalpha/en/images/8/89/Thomas_and_William_Riker.jpg

Well maybe not.

i've heard that a major label is throwing the idea re a hologram supergroup around.

i.e. taking the idea behind gorillaz to the next level.

no ideas as to who they would be using but still, the very idea just seems wrong ..

kurt cobain and jim morrison together at last perhaps ..

Can't wait for the Makaveli hologram!!

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:54 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha

worth reposting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI

i've heard that a major label is throwing the idea re a hologram supergroup around.

i.e. taking the idea behind gorillaz to the next level.

no ideas as to who they would be using but still, the very idea just seems wrong ..

kurt cobain and jim morrison together at last perhaps ..

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m25xswzGz41qzpixmo1_1280.jpg

Is George Harrison in hell then?

Who's to say that pic isn't Hell?

All right, Tuomas, help me out. Who's on the far right?

Johnny Cash? I'm not sure.

Robert Forrester and Leonard Cohen are both still alive, so it can't be them.

I think his attire would imply it's Cash, tho the hair looks weird...

why is everyone relaxing while amy winehouse has to serve drinks? doesn't seem fair imo

Ha, not in a million years would I have gotten this right:

http://scintillates-with-awesome.tumblr.com/post/20711668010/jim-morrison-kurt-cobain-amy-winehouse-bob

Because it is her wine house.

xp

is Hendrix on the Newky Brown there? respect tbh

haha Meir Ariel

he's kind of the Dylan figure of Israel, but Israel is a pretty small country

he's good though

R.I.P. it was a hologram

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/11/technology/digital-domain-bankrupt/index.html

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have this image of the unused Tupac hologram just sitting slouched on a box in some warehouse now, blinking his eyes or exhaling condensation at programmed intervals

Poor Frank Zappa isn't even allowed in, he has to stand on a ladder and look in through a boxy window.

http://i.imgur.com/W0Fja.png

― lag∞n, Monday, September 10, 2012 8:14 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was sort of hoping that wasn't a picture in the background of that GWB shot, but instead a little window that Laura Bush was photobombing through

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, September 10, 2012 8:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.24034/title.ol-dirty-bastard-s-virtual-performance-will-happen-according-to-rock-the-bells

Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson have apparently been singing their duet to holograms of each other. I guess how effective it looks depends on where you're sitting, but it is kinda funny to hear the crowd go apeshit in this video, right around :30 or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpSvAxQhPtI

singing their duet to holograms of each other

way of the future

How long before a commercial model? Like in 5 years can I just download the Beatles and have them play at my bbq?

it's basically just a projector + a reflective surface + an appropriate transparent surface on which to project it (the illusion is pepper's ghost, what a lot of magicians use). like, the setup is of course not trivial but i suppose ppl could be having the beatles play their bbq right now if they wanted

See: the Tupac hologram

according to the radio ads, eazy e has been added to the holo lineup along w/ odb

http://i.imgur.com/T2ageoz.jpg

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hollywood-hologram-wars-vicious-legal-798401

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yuSBgBC35I

almost bought one of these on a whim yesterday (i believe they are around $500 USD). this is new handheld holography tech from China. apparently there are a bunch of consumer grade LED holograph projectors on the market. the future's gonna be cool.

holy shit, that is really cool and i would love to see what other things can be displayed besides coca-cola bottles, mcdonalds, and $ signs

i think they are basically video players and take the usual formats AVI, MP4, etc. they are around 40cm in diameter, about the size of a shield. imagine setting up several of these in a room - you could do some amazing stuff!

Like chopping your fingers off while trying to grab Pokemon.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8516409/joint-buddy-holly-roy-orbison-hologram-tour-dates

https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/1500x992_gallery/public/media/buddy-holly-hologram-2019-billboard-1548.jpg

rivers cuomo is looking good, honestly

I thought it was Andy Samberg, TBH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGSQtuxOcg

https://i.imgur.com/FF1vbFd.gif

Wouldn't it be cheaper just to hire a Buddy Holly impersonator and, like, give him a hotel room every night than invent hologram technology that you then have to lug around the country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRauG4RxNMI

https://i.imgur.com/GAoCiFI.gif

that dude is the lamest looking buddy

no holograms involved, but this is an interesting interview with holly herndon on the recent song by Travisbott, which is an AI trained on Travis Scott (without his permission).

herndon touches on the possibility (the inevitability, according to herndon) of labels using AI to create new songs which mimic the voices of older singers. Just train an AI on a bunch of tracks of an elvis voice, then have elvis guest on a new song. "My music may suck but I'm on a major label (ft. Elvis)". interesting to think about, and given the strange popularity of shitty remixes of older songs, it does seem inevitable.

...Spawn, Herndon's "collaborator," was trained on different, consenting human voices ranging from Herndon’s own to that of a 14-piece choir; she denies that Travisbott is an extension of her work even outside of ethical considerations. “We used audio material [instead of MIDI], which is actually much harder.” When she spoke with The FADER in 2019 about Proto, Herndon said she saw something like Travisbott coming: “I think we're going to see a flood of automated compositions, people using neural nets to extract the logic from other people's work, and a lot of appropriation. We're going to see big issues around attribution.” Now that this future has arrived, what’s next? Speaking over Skype, Herndon succinctly broke down her concerns while rejecting the “evil robot” vision of the future.

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Q: Do you think that one day voice modeling is something that could buttress this tendency to keep revisiting the same pop archetypes?

A: Oh, 100%. Are you kidding me? There's so many labels with gold mines worth of master tapes that they're just dying to reanimate. That's definitely going to happen.

We'll see what the public decides that they want, or what they don't want. We also decided as a society that it's okay to not pay for music. So I don't know, maybe we're going to also decide that entertainment trumps everything else. We're going to see a lot of retro fetishism artistic necrophilia. And maybe some of it's even going to be interesting. But we have to figure out the ethics around it, and I don't think anyone's even wanting to have that conversation. We're still all excited about the shiny new toy instead of thinking about what it means.

um.

here we go!

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/kiss-achieves-music-immortality-with-new-hologram-bandmates-for-live-gigs-1559888.html

The logical next step is to make their aging audience into holograms too.

Imagine you don’t have to walk up those endless arena hallways and stairs anymore on the way to your seat, just watch the concert straight from the retirement home and see your younger self stagediving & crowdsurfing.