the Tupac hologram

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