the Tupac hologram

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.