In 2014, Musion 3D helped India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi appear at many campaign rallies at once, including in remote towns the candidate could not otherwise have visited. Yet in the larger view, “digital resurrection is a very small piece of what we do.”
“The interest in our technology increased tenfold” after the 2012 Tupac event, Musion co-founder Ian O’Connell says. Similarly, a third company, the UK-based Musion 3D, worked on the most famous “digital resurrection,” the 2012 appearance at the California music festival Coachella by deceased rapper Tupac Shakur. You see Broadway shows where actors portray people, impersonators who use prosthetics and make-up.”īASE also creates interactive museum experiences, bringing historical figures and extinct creatures such as dinosaurs to audiences, and it is exploring other applications. “I don’t believe we’re being morbid in any way. “This is a theatrical concert experience,” says BASE founder, Chairman and CEO Brian Becker, who was previously Chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Entertainment. But such concerns have had the ironic effect of generating even more headlines. Many have questioned the ethics of this technology-both inventing artists who never existed and resurrecting others into situations they never encountered in real life. Orbison, two now-dead early-era rockers who knew each other in real life but never toured together. A new tour this year features the dream duo of Buddy Holly and Mr. US company BASE Hologram has set up well-attended tours of deceased stars playing with live musicians, including opera diva Maria Callas and soulful US rock legend Roy Orbison. Yet hologram entertainment is compelling precisely because it does blur the line between reality and fantasy-even the line between living and dead. The vast majority of her fans are aware of that and are not blindly following Hatsune Miku.” There have to be human beings to make her do so and she wouldn’t exist without them. “Hatsune Miku cannot dance or sing on her own. Hatsune Miku songs are written by fans her performances are an expression of a creative community, events “in which fans, creators, musicians all participate,” Mr. Itoh agrees that “the artifact” of the holographic image “allows the audience to feel Hatsune Miku is ‘really there.’” But he adds, there’s an important difference. Lady Gaga and other stars have collaborated with Hatsune Miku, introducing her to more followers. At her concerts, they scream her name at the anime projection onstage-even as it periodically dissolves into a flurry of pixelated stars or in other ways demonstrates that it is not a real person, but pure animation. Fans accept the artificial being as a persona: They bond with her. While live holographic events are still only a small piece of the virtual reality/augmented reality sector, stories such as the Hatsune Miku wedding illustrate the power of this technology. We soon figured out that if we could find a way to bring those visuals onto a stage, we could make an actual concert with a virtual singer.”
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In the video game series that we released with Sega, Hatsune Miku sings and dances thanks to computer graphics. “But because we added a character component to her package, it became famous also as a character.
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“Hatsune Miku is a piece of software that reproduces the human singing voice,” says Crypton CEO Hiroyuki Itoh. She is also part of the explosive field of holographic entertainment already attracting large audiences and pushing the definition of reality in all types of live events, bringing fictional and historical characters to life, and allowing the living to defy laws of time and space by appearing in many places at once. She is a pioneering product developed by Crypton Future Media in cooperation with Yamaha. Hatsune Miku, a name that means “first sound of the future,” is a “Vocaloid,” a fictional personality developed around computer-generated singing voices. It was a marriage made for the 21st century: The groom was Tokyo school administrator Akihiko Kondo the bride, a hologram. T he wedding of pop star Hatsune Miku made headlines in Japan last year and mentions of it continue to turn up in articles around the world this year. Email Three hologram entertainment companies offer true stories from the world of the unreal.
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