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

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.

...

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.