I saw some videos the other day for the Vocaloids-- of course I'd read about them before hand, but... it doesn't do the justice that watching a video of a concert hall completely packed with glow-stick waving fans, who all paid money to see a hologram.
Check it out! So call me easily excited, but I started checking into the software running the holograms... It's basically your average animating studio software.
Now. Take that. Add in this...
vimeo.com/16985224
and you have so many opportunities....
My first act with this new technology would be to bring back Elvis, and maybe Michael Jackson. Definitely Dio.
I know some people would see this as a morally grey area. But, I mean, how is it any different than watching a video of a past performance. We're not giving them new songs or anything, and we could program in movements that they're already known for. And it's not like it will be for free-- you'd have to pay to rent the rights to the peoples' likenesses, and probably pay again for their recordings.
My next acts would be backstage, acting out 7 different characters in a play, just by switching skins.
Using humans as the puppeteers will make the movements more... human. And so I'm excited now.
Alright, so. Next step is Blind Mag and Amber Sweet, live in concert. The only hardship there is how to make a hologram shoot holograms out of her eyes? XD