Topic: Japanese pop star is an anime hologram

[W7RE]

http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/09/cant-miss-videos-of-japans-3d-hologram-rock-star-hatsune-miku-in-hd/

She appears as a hologram on stage, and her voice is synthesized using "Yamaha’s Vocaloid voice synthesizer"

The hologram seems impressive, and of course Japan would use it to make a live action anime character. If it was the US it would be a military combat decoy or something, haha.

[Quemaqua]

Fucking weird, but pretty impressive.  I never got the whole Hatsune Miku thing.  Some of the music is catchy or whatever, but I don't get the appeal of fake people in this capacity.  It's interesting from the perspective that it's different and unusual, but wouldn't you feel just a weeeee bit awkward going to a show and there wasn't even a real person performing?  The day we can make robots that are basically sentient lifeforms who can do that shit, then maybe.  I've watched enough sci-fi movies to buy the concept of artificial intelligence eventually being so real it almost ceases to be artificial.  But holograms?

After watching this for a minute I realized I was kind of forgetting it was fake for a second.  It's really quite impressive with the shadowing and everything.

[iPPi]

That hologram is impressive.

Japanese culture is so weird though.  I would really like to visit Japan in the near future to see what it's like.

[sirean_syan]

Fuck the anime girls. Start making awesome museum pieces of skeletons, dinosaurs, lost historical object, and impossible sculptures.

Oh, and of course parks need to be filled with giant robots every now and again.

The future is now, why waste it on a bunch of crazy anime guys? Like they need any more encouragement to fall in love with inanimate objects.

[idolminds]

Fuck the anime girls.

Thats for version 2.0.

[sirean_syan]

Idol gets points for catching that setup.

[Xessive]

Hey, I know that character! Miku was all over the anime torrent sites until a few weeks ago.

It's pretty funky stuff but I maintain my stance on squeaky Asian chick voices: annoying.

[Ghandi]

The lack of tentacle porn in this thread is surely disappointing to Keebs.

[scottws]

What the fuck is wrong with Japanese people?

[Pugnate]

WTF.

I mean that is impressive as a piece of technology... but wtf?

I can even accept people hardcore enough to go to the concert, and enjoying the novelty of it all. But these people are really really into it.

Agree with Scott.

[beo]

you people are so dry, i think this is awesome!

[Pugnate]

Just watched the opening of the second video. Creeeeeepy crowd reaction.

[Cobra951]

The technology is so impressive that it's hard to believe.  I keep searching for tricks and wondering how it was done, and if it's really live.

How does that work, exactly?  My disconnect is that I don't know how anyone could produce a free-floating image, without a physical medium to contain it, or focus it on.  I don't see a fog bank on that stage, or anything similar.

[sirean_syan]

I think it's something like a fancier version of those clear teleprompters we started seeing around the 2008 election. The glass (or plastic?) is probably being held by those four pillars on the corners of the stage.

[Cobra951]

That would be credible anyway.  Thanks.

[Gup]

Cobra I don't know if you remember me but hello.

[Cobra951]

Sorry, no.  You say you were on AOG before?  In any case, welcome. 

[PyroMenace]

The more I think about this, the more I can see Americans going fucking nuts over this same thing if Britney Spears had pre-recorded her dance performance and then just holographed it off on a stage.

[scottws]

That's stupid too, but at least it's a holographic image of a human.

[W7RE]

Apparently I've seen this type of stuff before, I just didn't remember or missed it.

The Gorillaz did some hologram performances of Feel Good Inc., and at some point a hologram of Elvis preformed an "If I Can Dream" duet with Celine Dion on American Idol.

The Gorillaz performances could be 2D projected onto a flat area for all I know, but I think they are in fact holograms. The Elvis thing is weird, it looks like a real guy, but the face looks like it has that low quality of coming from an old video, making it almost look like Elvis's face on someone else's body. Maybe they combined a recording of an actor and Evlis's head to create the entire hologram.



I want a hologram now. I'm not sure what of and what for, but I want one lol.