the Tupac hologram

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?

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we were promised holograms

tbf the hologram didnt even look that much like tupac

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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

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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.

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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.

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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"

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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

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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

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