Japanese Pop Star Draws Crowds Despite Being a Hologram

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metacree said:
This video is kind of a creepy telling of the Vocaloid's history.






This.
Watch this and try to push the idea out of your head you already had that these vocaloids seek only to gain sentience and will eventually perform a hauntingly beautiful song as one, driving us meat-creatures mad and clearing the way for the robots, who unlike them have physical bodies, to become the dominant species. (But the Vocaloids will already be jealous of their physically-present brethren, and that's when their REAL plan will be carried out)
This, my friends, is now the melody I hear Cassilda's Song in.
 

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You see, this is why anime fans are looked down upon on the internet and called faggots. I don't blame the people that call them that. Everyone that was at that concert has not lost their virginity and probably never will. I mean, think about it. They're seeing an anime chick preform live. I hope they know that there's this fictional thing called life and these even more fictional thing called women which are so much more entertaining. Also, for the slow people on this forum, by fictional I mean the things these people choose to ignore.
Yeah, right, because if you go to a concert that happens to have groundbreaking technology being showcased... It's because your attracted by the virtual chick and aren't interested whatsoever in human women...

By that logic, should I say most of the people who go to heavy metal concerts or something along those lines are just there because they like the way the band looks instead of the music, or just the stage effects?
I tend to go to concerts since, yeah, the band it fucking good. Not because of the special effects. Sure, if there are special effects, they're good but I Go to see the band. Also, I said what I said because right when the girl appeared, (sorry, don't know her name) they all started cheering. Kinda says something about them.
 

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Moromillas said:
There was/is another tech similar to this, also developed in Japan - Nintendo 3DS, which you also need to see IRL to get the full 3d effect. Maybe just a coincidence.
The 3DS uses a Parallax Barrier screen, the technology [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_barrier] is quite different and has the rather large downside in that it only has a very limited number of focal points where the 3D effect actually works. This is obviously not an issue with a hand-held gaming device, but it's useless for larger scale performances.

I have heard of a company working on a version of this technology with multiple focal points, but it's still quite limited.
 

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mr_rubino said:
This.
Watch this and try to push the idea out of your head you already had that these vocaloids seek only to gain sentience and will eventually perform a hauntingly beautiful song as one, driving us meat-creatures mad and clearing the way for the robots, who unlike them have physical bodies, to become the dominant species. (But the Vocaloids will already be jealous of their physically-present brethren, and that's when their REAL plan will be carried out)
This, my friends, is now the melody I hear Cassilda's Song in.
Eh, those things don't scare me that much. To me personaly we'll be our own instruments of destruction, considering how we still mistreat the fuck out of each other I really do shudder at how we'll treat our first wave of robot servants.

 

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Witty Name Here said:
ShadowDude112 said:
Witty Name Here said:
ShadowDude112 said:
You see, this is why anime fans are looked down upon on the internet and called faggots. I don't blame the people that call them that. Everyone that was at that concert has not lost their virginity and probably never will. I mean, think about it. They're seeing an anime chick preform live. I hope they know that there's this fictional thing called life and these even more fictional thing called women which are so much more entertaining. Also, for the slow people on this forum, by fictional I mean the things these people choose to ignore.
Yeah, right, because if you go to a concert that happens to have groundbreaking technology being showcased... It's because your attracted by the virtual chick and aren't interested whatsoever in human women...

By that logic, should I say most of the people who go to heavy metal concerts or something along those lines are just there because they like the way the band looks instead of the music, or just the stage effects?
I tend to go to concerts since, yeah, the band it fucking good. Not because of the special effects. Sure, if there are special effects, they're good but I Go to see the band. Also, I said what I said because right when the girl appeared, (sorry, don't know her name) they all started cheering. Kinda says something about them.
That's a pretty dumb reason... So if someone cheers when they see their favorite band come on stage, it's because they are attracted to them and not anyone else? This argument of yours can basically be used to say, "Whenever they invent a new console, like a 'PS4' or something and that console has groundbreaking new graphics and technology... If you cheer or even go to see it, it's because your aroused by the Sony representative and not because your excited about the new technology."


No offense to you, but this argument of yours really can't hold up. It's basically saying if you cheer during anything, regardless of it being a new technology or not, it's because your attracted by the person who is showing it off and not just excited...
Don't put words in my mouth because I'll shove them right back down your throat. What I mean is that it's okay to cheer if somethings cool, I cheered when I see something cool. But, if it's a fictional character who doesn't exist (doesn't it cost a lot of money to go to a concert?) Anyways, I obviously offended you in someway so I apologize. I was just voicing my opinion. Apologies to all if it offended more than just you.
 

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Am I the only one more interested in how the hologram tech works than how weird it is that Japan has holographic pop stars?
Nope, I'm pretty fascinated by how this would work and its implications too.

Of course, this makes me wonder if someone will eventually make duel disk systems with it. I would build a time machine just to show it to my 3rd grade self.
 

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Mr. Tito, isn't this Funk's territory? I thought he was the official reporter for all things insane and Japanese...

OT: Yeah, while technically impressive, it's nonetheless a little creepy. A mostly tangible-looking anime girl singing in front of a real audience is way, way down in the uncanny valley.
 

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uhh so, this is just weird...they are using holograms completely wrong!
A holographic concert?!
Wow. I can't believe anybody would go to that...
It's like paying tons of money to go watch a music video in a dark room with 1000s of other strangers...
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic and making fun of people who go to any kind of concert or if you're just being completely narrow-minded. After reading through some of the comments in this thread it get's hard to expect sensible people.

Anyway, yay for Japan, they have had holograms all this time. Although it does seem like a small accomplishment when put next to the giant robots they should be working on.
No, I am saying when you go to a real concert, you are paying the money to go see the people in person...like going to a hockey game, instead of watching it on TV.
I guess I am just being narrow-minded but it's just too weird for me. I don't get why you would want a concert played by holograms. if they made a hologram phone or like put holograms in chairs for across the world office meetings... but I guess the data transfer would have to be massive to do something like that live. Although it would be a better use in my opinion.
 

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ShadowDude112 said:
Don't put words in my mouth because I'll shove them right back down your throat. What I mean is that it's okay to cheer if somethings cool, I cheered when I see something cool. But, if it's a fictional character who doesn't exist (doesn't it cost a lot of money to go to a concert?) Anyways, I obviously offended you in someway so I apologize. I was just voicing my opinion. Apologies to all if it offended more than just you.
IE. U MAD BRAH?!

Seriously though, out of all the dumb things I've heard, you definitely won the title. For someone that goes out to "alot" of conerects, you (out of all the virgin unwashed masses) sure do know the difference between a good band, a good performance, and what's a great visual display. (/sarcasm)

But clearly the last time you've been to a concert was for the Insane Clown Posse.

For starters, some bands and artist just don't have that much energy or command of the crowd like others do. They have some great music, but their stage performance are clearly lacking for whatever reasons. (Which may-not be their fault, maybe they are more introverted, or maybe complete dicks to their fans like the Kings on Leon and Creed.) Hatsume Miku here clearly does not have that problem.

Point given to the Hologram chick.

Performance wise, all bands will make mistakes while preforming. But we credit that towards them. While a band is preforming, we're not expecting CD perfect songs, but something that acknowledged the crowd. (Bonus points to Mega Ran's Freestyle with the audience, quite the dope performer!) A artist will skip lyrics or have their band members play the rift or melody while the lead preps the audience for the drop. Imaginer Girl Vocoder here clearly cannot do that with her current AI, but like the previous Gorilaz concert's (not the new Plastic Beach ones, but the ones right before it) Set up requires the scripters of the show to many possible variations of the same show. When Cartoon Alice DX gets to be able to exploit that in real time, we'll have our other "fake" bands suddenly become more popular.

point given to the Glow stick crowd.

Finally, have you ever been to a Dio (May he rest in peace) Concert? Dio and his band made great CDs, but they MADE MAGIC on stage. It was a perfect blend of performance, Command, and (get this) VISUALS. What makes sound even more better? The visuals of course! Dio had everything going on, Lazers, Lights, video, and focus on the band members in the middle of it. The only thing to top what Dio made was when the Gorilaz was in town for their Plastic Beach concert. There where simple stage props, but the sheer amount of people on stage and the video of the band and animations while Damon was completely controlling the show in his make-shift salior uniform was just a perfect sensory overload. See-Thru Chick here isn't new, but the visuals where actually simple yet fitting.

point given to the lightblub for the starburst-though-the-croch.

Overall, Stop whining. It's not your thing, we get it. But that performance was decent and the crowd energy would of been great to experienced.
 

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Pizzatrooper said:
No, I am saying when you go to a real concert, you are paying the money to go see the people in person...like going to a hockey game, instead of watching it on TV.
I guess I am just being narrow-minded but it's just too weird for me. I don't get why you would want a concert played by holograms. if they made a hologram phone or like put holograms in chairs for across the world office meetings... but I guess the data transfer would have to be massive to do something like that live. Although it would be a better use in my opinion.
This might change your mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-AhYnjKEzs&feature=related
 

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We make holograms and this is it's first use? Well at least we have holograms :D

Think of hologram games or films... My god
Well, my one defense against people that bash motion controls in games, is that it is an integral step in holodeck technology. The holodeck will have to detect the players movement.

Before watching these videos, I thought that it would be long after my lifetime before we saw holodecks, but this looks phenomenal. The only way I could tell it was hologram was because of the anime look.

All we have to do is start working on solid holograms that we can interact with. Oh, games will be so awesome.

We just might see it in our lifetime.
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I guess it is just what people like in music, but I actually liked that music, not that I could understand what she was saying. It was catchy though.
 

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Nice to see Vocaloid finally being in the news section.

This is actually isn't anything new. I knew about this for a few months. The concert itself is about a year old or so.

Nonetheless, I still find this really, really awesome. Wish I was there -.-

I've seen so many strange things come out of Japan that I don't even consider them strange anymore.

And Hatsune Miku isn't anything new, she's been around for a few years now, and there are many others like her, and she's NOT just a hologram, she's a computer program that you can get online.