Hologram Concerts

Phostenix

Power User
With all of this talk about the Tupac hologram concert, it's gotten me wondering how far this could go if it catches on. Assuming that the technology is there or can get there, I can envision a crazy world where anyone can be re-created holographically and be made to do anything - including accurate depictions of playing instruments.

This leads to a while new concert industry. The "Back from the Dead" concert series featuring Jimi Hendrix, SRV, The Who, Elvis Presley, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sammy Davis, Junior - OK, maybe not that.

But then, how about 1980 Van Halen playing the recorded versions of the first 2 albums? Or the 1968 Beatles performing the White Album?

Any band could potentially be re-created playing any songs from any era.

If this works, the world will become a very strange place.


And, trust me, if there's any way this is possible, the casinos are working on it right now. It will give a whole new meaning to the Casino Circuit....
 
Doesn't look real.

I can see big budget performing acts using this technology to further elevate themselves above people like us who, thanks to the Axe-Fx, have access to the same recorded fidelity.
 
Dr. Dre thinks it looks good enough to take Hologram Tupac on tour with him in the coming months.

This isn't about audio fidelity, it's about people being able to "see live" bands that don't exist anymore.

The possibilities of this are really endless, from musical acts to theater/movie production to having Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr give his I Have a Dream speech.
 
From the LA Times:

"The trick is to have a transparent piece of material that will still reflect an image that is projected onto it, while still allowing other people on the stage to move behind the image and in front of it.

In the olden days, the transparent material was usually glass. On Sunday's performance it was Mylar, a highly reflective, lightweight plastic, stretched on a clear 30-by-13-foot screen customized by AV Concepts to descend onto the stage in seconds between sets of the performance.

If that makes the creation of a holographic Shakur seem easy, it's not -- especially because the virtual Shakur's performance was not based on archival footage.

"This is not him performing at some point, this is completely original, exclusive performance only for Coachella and that audience," Ed Ulbrich, chief creative officer at Digital Domain told Bloomberg.

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The company created the virtual Tupac from video footage and photos of the rapper, working on the project for about four months.

That is its own kind of magic."

Full story:
What was new, and what wasn't, about the Tupac hologram at Coachella 2012 - latimes.com
 
On one hand, It's cool stuff and it can be interesting technology, especially for theaters. On the other hand, I think the dead deserve some form of respect.
 
I think it's lame and can't see it making money for long. If I'm wrong, there'll be a whole lot of really really lame concerts.

Hologram: how you all doing tonight?
Crowd: *cheers*

Me: wtf? they're talking to a recording
 
How long before the hologram Notorious BIG has a battle with Tupac over if their east coast/west coast projectors are better. Then someone drives by in & unplugs Tupac's projector.
 
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