Here we have large groups of people in the US paying to attend concerts given by a virtual pop star created and controlled by Japanese businessmen.
Reality truly is as strange as fiction!
Review: Japanese Hologram Pop Star Hatsune Miku Tours North America
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#12There are already plenty of comments on Ars discussing the various inaccuracies of the article.
I'm not sure pointing them out here would be useful.
For starters, cs702's comment here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=11602173&goto=item%3Fi... ) is plain wrong.
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#13The absence of Idoru[1] references is surprising. Almost as surprising as learning that book is 20 years old. I may need to re-read it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
I was just about to write that. Was there anything like take existing at that time or did he project the trends and adding a good dose of Japanese pop culture weirdness, completely on his own?
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#14Here we have large groups of people in the US paying to attend concerts given by a virtual pop star created and controlled by Japanese businessmen. Reality truly is as strange as fiction!
Please see the discussion in the comments on Ars. If it wasn't sarcasm, what you said is simply misinformation.
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#15Here we have large groups of people in the US paying to attend concerts given by a virtual pop star created and controlled by Japanese businessmen. Reality truly is as strange as fiction!
Please see the discussion in the comments on Ars. If it wasn't sarcasm, what you said is simply misinformation.
Could you clarify, please?
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#16Imagine once VR/AR become mainstream. You'd have real artists having simul-cencerts in ten stadiums (or in homes for the homebodies) competing against anime performers who don't get exhausted or get sick or who want to retire... So the farce of the "artist" can be all done with --just corporate manufactured music entertainment.
You make it sound like it's something other than utopian paradise. I will never interact with any of the artists I listen to so whether or not they are "real" makes no difference to me. Especially since a lot of artists have stage personas who aren't "real" either so it comes down to whether the part is played by a human actor or an animated one.
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#17I can never tell if the ticketing websites always report that tickets are almost sold-out. Regardless, that strategy just worked on me.
So today I will see John Kasich speak in San Jose and then I attend a J-Pop vocaloid concert in the evening. A most weird day even by SF Bay standards.
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#18There are already plenty of comments on Ars discussing the various inaccuracies of the article. I'm not sure pointing them out here would be useful. For starters, cs702's comment here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=11602173&goto=item%3Fi... ) is plain wrong.
Skimming through the top bunch of comments doesn't reveal much... is his comment "plain wrong" as in it isn't a large group of people? Or they aren't in the US? Or they aren't paying? Or it isn't a virtual pop star? Or it wasn't created by Japanese businessmen? Or reality isn't as strange as fiction?
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#19It's TODAY in SF, there are still tickets available if you act fast.
More info: At the Warfield, 1:30 and 8pm. Tickets are $50-150.
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#20The absence of Idoru[1] references is surprising. Almost as surprising as learning that book is 20 years old. I may need to re-read it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
I was just about to write that. Was there anything like take existing at that time or did he project the trends and adding a good dose of Japanese pop culture weirdness, completely on his own?
AFAIK Gibson's just really good at assessing culture and predicting its course.