"It's more like the Tupac hologram visited Disneyland." Awesome.

It's got a CENTER FOR CREATION STUDIES. It's a UNIVERSITY. No legitimate leader would be caught dead in the parking lot. Ugh. Sealed his own fate. R-Money is unelectable.

And they would have gotten away with it too if not for those meddling kids!

>> ^oritteropo:

That looks like the same ("Pepper's ghost") technique used for the Sega game Time Traveler and the Tupac concert... it was developed in the 16th century, and was popular on stage in the 19th century.
That said though, it was very nicely done until the last few seconds.

See also Zifnab's Awesome Lego Star wars Hologram and the Sega Time Traveler videos for more. Ars Technica have a nice article on the subject too.

The technique suddenly seems to be popping up everywhere!

That looks like the same ("Pepper's ghost") technique used for the Sega game Time Traveler and the Tupac concert... it was developed in the 16th century, and was popular on stage in the 19th century.

That said though, it was very nicely done until the last few seconds.

There was so much disingenuous marketing hype coming out of Sega in these days. This was the "blast processing" era.. Man that Sega president has some great hair, but his schtick kills me. This game is not a hologram any more than the Tupac hologram was a hologram. Holograms are 3D. This is just projecting video onto glass obscured by other glass. And the game was beyond lame, like a really bland, slow and unresponsive, even more unfair version of Dragon's Lair.

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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

>> ^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"

>> ^spoco2:

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

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

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?

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.

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