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Whoa. Here's a mega-popular pop star in Japan... and she's a hologram.
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Mind = blown. And I'm not entirely sure why. It must be either the fact that this is actually possible, or maybe it's the thousands of people screaming at a hologram. 
One wonders what Yamaha Corporation--who created the Vocaloid software in the first place--thinks about about this....
The impression I get is that we'd rather have fake virtual people as opposed to fake actual people giving popular music to the masses. I guess that makes sense.
Watching, listening to, and cheering a hologram in concert is "weird"? Really?
As I type, millions of people in movie theaters around the globe are wearing 3D glasses and cheering out-loud as an imaginary hero defeats an imaginary nemesis, following a series of physics-defying feats performed with the aid of wires, CGI, and chroma keying. The soft drinks, candy, and the popcorn are only things that are truly "real" about that experience.
As I type, millions of people in movie theaters around the globe are wearing 3D glasses and cheering out-loud as an imaginary hero defeats an imaginary nemesis, following a series of physics-defying feats performed with the aid of wires, CGI, and chroma keying. The soft drinks, candy, and the popcorn are only things that are truly "real" about that experience.
The blu-ray of this concert is $80. EIGHTY FREAKING DOLLARS. I wonder if they'll take holographic money?
That's the second thing I thought of when I saw this thread.
And that's the first thing.
No one is surprised about that because it's the norm. As amazing as it may actually be, it's nothing out of the ordinary. A holographic entertainer performing to thousands is fairly uncommon, and therefore much more interesting.
What's more pathetic, a concert hall full of a couple hundred or thousand people out with their friends having a good time, or thirteen and a half million people sitting at home in silence staring at a glowing box?
Took the words right out of my mouth. And yet this still pales in comparison to Sharon Apple - music, movement, style, etc.
Glowing box? TV was thought of the SAME way in its debut.
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Well Sharon Apple has made to be more human like and had the added emotions from Myung. That and that bio-chip they added to her to make her become sentient.
Pfffttt......
<----Hotter.
When I saw this, a mental picture of televangelist Jan Crouch popped into my mind involuntarily.
Separated at birth, perhaps?
((shudder))
...I'm sorry. Really, I am.