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Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds

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Re: Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds

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Post by corysama »

BjornW wrote: post #4

Wow! This reminds me of the book Idoru by Willam Gibson. Idoru on Wikipedia: "In the post Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake world of the early 21st century, Colin Laney is referred to agents of the aging mega-rock star Rez (of the musical group Lo/Rez, and seemingly very much styled after former The Smiths frontman, Morrissey) for a job using his peculiar talent of sifting through vast amounts of mundane data to find "n…

This is one case where Gibson was slightly behind. Japan has been looking forward to holographic rock stars since Macross Plus in 1994 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKcud4Qs4_U#t=4m50s) --just ahead of Idoru (1996).

Re: Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds

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Post by runjake »

This disturbs me beyond words.

It seems like a real loss for humanity and a real gain for special interests (although it can be argued that humans can be manipulated as easily as this hologram for such purposes).

In any case, this isn't part of any future I'll be embracing.

Re: Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds

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Post by jianshen »

zdw wrote: post #3

Life imitates anime - anyone else get a Macross Plus flashback about the concept?

+1 Sharon Apple Flashback!

The Macross Plus soundtrack was one of my all time favorites from the ridiculously talented Yoko Kanno.

Now to wait for Veritech's to be invented...

Re: Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds

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Post by zacharycohn »

BjornW wrote: post #4

Wow! This reminds me of the book Idoru by Willam Gibson. Idoru on Wikipedia: "In the post Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake world of the early 21st century, Colin Laney is referred to agents of the aging mega-rock star Rez (of the musical group Lo/Rez, and seemingly very much styled after former The Smiths frontman, Morrissey) for a job using his peculiar talent of sifting through vast amounts of mundane data to find "n…

This reminds me of a short cyberpunk story. I can't remember the name/author, but it was about a world where the next level of entertainment was essentially generated from a brainmap of the "artist." There was a girl who was disabled/disfigured/diseased, and she ended up becoming the biggest and most popular artist ever due to the raw emotions she was conveying.

At the end she transfers her consciousness "to the cloud" and becomes completely digitized.

Anyone else read this?

Re: Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds

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Post by stcredzero »

Vivtek wrote: post #40

I have to admit, I'm getting a little uncanny-valley vibe from that. The movement is too crisp (they've got to be digitizing the movement of a human dancer?) in combination with the cartoony appearance.

Yes. I think it would've actually worked better if the toon shading was a bit more "toony" and the frame rate was lowered to 12. It would seem more "magical" that way, like the mixed live/cartoon scenes in Mary Poppins.
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