[4eyes] Hologram Concerts

[Nichole Stockman]

Awesome stuff :)

~ Nichole

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Chris Sweeney <cmsweeney at cs.ucsb.edu>wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I was at the Coachella music festival this past weekend and (to my
> surprise) came across something relevant to the lab. During one of the
> performances a hologram of the famous deceased rapper Tupac Shakur came on
> stage and performed. The hologram looked incredibly real and has quite a
> bit of space to move around in. I had always heard that this sort of
> technology existed but didn't realize it was being used in practice for
> large venues yet. Here is an article<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57415126-501465/tupac-coachella-hologram-behind-the-technology/> describing
> some of the technology behind it done by a company called AV Concepts<http://www.avconcepts.com/>
> .
>
> It's pretty cool but scary to imagine going to concerts of holograms in
> the future. On the one hand, it would be cool to simultaneously broadcast a
> big concert like Live 8 to cities all over the world to provide access for
> people to see the show. On the other hand, maybe bands would stop touring
> and just be able to send out their holograms to tour for them. Either way,
> I think it's an interesting use of technology in our field
>
> -Chris
>
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