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This is amazing. I'm led to believe it was quite realistic to those in the audience.

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Very cool, no doubt, and I'd love to see it in person, but I recoil a little when I hear this technology described as a hologram. It's not a 3D rendering, as far as I understand it. It's just a life-sized projection onto a really large semi-transparent surface. Right? Or am I missing something?

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>> ^lucky760:

Very cool, no doubt, and I'd love to see it in person, but I recoil a little when I hear this technology described as a hologram. It's not a 3D rendering, as far as I understand it. It's just a life-sized projection onto a really large semi-transparent surface. Right? Or am I missing something?


Yeah I think it's the same technology that they use for that japanese anime popstar Hatsune Miku.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI

While this is a definite +1 for technology and showmanship, it's a definite -1 for the legacy of your favourite musicians. If this becomes a trend prepare to see your favourite dead rock stars back on stage, and re-purposed, re-voiced and re-scripted to suit the the requirements or agenda of whoever's pulling the strings.

New Michael Jackson stage musical anyone?

Ghost Tupac hasn't aged a bit!

*animation?

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yeah awesome until the AI surpasses human intelligence and tupak assumes control and has his human slaves building transparent walls everywhere for him to travel on

Not crazy about Tupac singing about 'busting a nut'. There was a little bit more to him than that and it dishonors his memory.

Even in death the knights of Konduras will serve their King!

TOLD YOU HE WASNT DEAD !

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Yeah @lucky760, it's not a hologram (although someone took me to task about the exact definition of hologram once in the past).

It is projected onto a screen and it's a combination of previous live performances of Tupac and a digital creation by Digital Domain.

It's a bloody lifelike animation, I'll give it that.

I demand entertainment as a consumer. It is my duty as a consumer and their intent as performers to remain my entertainment. Tupac approves. The check has been cashed.

>> ^TheSluiceGate:

If this becomes a trend prepare to see your favourite dead rock stars back on stage, and re-purposed, re-voiced and re-scripted to suit the the requirements or agenda of whoever's pulling the strings.
New Michael Jackson stage musical anyone?

Very cool. Disconcerting how he kind of slides left and right while having his feet planted. Perhaps they will fix this in Tupac 2.0

not even *death can stop him

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bizarre.
its sanitized art.
what would he really say today?

Even in death he still has time to work on his abs!

Not quite... reminds me too much of a video game, he just looks too posed. Granted, it's an ever less uncanny valley out there all the time.

But he deh.

>> ^spoco2:

It's a bloody lifelike animation, I'll give it that.
You sure it's animation and not digitized previous footage?

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^spoco2:
It's a bloody lifelike animation, I'll give it that.
You sure it's animation and not digitized previous footage?


Well, from the article I linked to: "The blend of previously recorded live footage and CGI was created by Digital Domain"

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Good article in Ars about the technology:
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/tupac-hologram-merely-pretty-cool-optical-illusion.ars

nice work but they got a little sloppy with the rendering of snoop.

Sickness.

Is this the new Prometheus trailer?

If he was alive, would he have chosen to play Coachella? Macabre.

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Just think of the moving while not moving as them preparing for MJ's moonwalk.