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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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This looks more like rear-projection video (note the starburst in the back of the stage) or Pepper's Ghost, although the scrim is too vertically oriented to be that. Nothing here looks 3D, but of course these videos are very carefully shot and enhanced from all appearances.

And all the videos are from near-straight-on. Because this type of projection (onto a flat, semitransparent screen) gets skewed when at an angle.

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

#75

Here are some famous Miku Hatsune videos. Po pi po (the vegetable juice one): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-2lzA7_Cg "Yukkuri shiteitte ne", which means "take it easy", a Japanese meme/philosophy based on the "yukkuris": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cHsNnDfmDs Disappearance of Miku Hatsune, about someone deleting the vocaloid program from their computer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN7mR_ECQjo It's worth no…

"Love is War" is my favourite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dYk5Plhl9Y

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

#76

This looks more like rear-projection video (note the starburst in the back of the stage) or Pepper's Ghost, although the scrim is too vertically oriented to be that. Nothing here looks 3D, but of course these videos are very carefully shot and enhanced from all appearances.

You're right, this is the same technology used for the Gorillaz tour a few years back. In that case, some very talented, real musicians were hiding their wrinkles and gray hair behind the screens.
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