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Hm Gotta wonder how it feels "in person" as it were.
However, I foresee Disney or Pixar using this technology for a presentation at say the Academy Awards
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Wow. That's even more impressive than the Gorillaz "live performances".
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I'm just wondering how the hell they pulled that off! For certain, it appears they used multiple laser projectors operating from different angles... but how did they get the image to be so... so coherent!?
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There are several methods I've seen in the news over the last year or so that might account for it; whatever it is, though, it encloses a relatively small volume. Note that she doesn't move very far from the point where she rose up out of the stage. And the stage design, with those curving, enclosing "beams", effectively reduce the performing space, and thus make it less obvious that she's not ranging from one end of the stage to another.
One possibility might be that she's projected on a vertical sheet of glass or plexiglas which is spinning; different lasers paint different angles at different points in its rotation.
As for the performance itself, Disney already does something similar with its "Monsters, Inc." attraction, in which projected computer-generated characters interact with the audience in real-time. I suspect that there's a very real actress/dancer somewhere out of sight tagged for motion capture, who drives the movements of the animated figure, and gets some kind of visual feed on the stage and at least the first row or two so she can wave to or otherwise respond to nearby audience members. It'd be interesting to find out if "Miku" actually talks to the audience; if she does, I wonder who's in charge of her dialogue and how much of it is allowed to be spontaneous.
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Okay, I'm wrong, at least partially.� The 3-D look is an illusion; just like the Gorillaz stuff from a couple years ago, it's a projection on a flat sheet of glass.� The "beams" hide the supports.� It's very visible on this video at the 20-second mark, and even more so from 1:20 to 1:25. You can even see the seams in the sheet where several pieces are butted up edge-to-edge to make a larger "screen".
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Wow. Shades of Sharon Apple.
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Also, its worth noting that all the vocaloids are still using voices that are sampled from specific real people and voice actors.
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It's a variation on the same classic illusion used in the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland.
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This news story has drawn a *lot* of attention. That video has closing on 2
million views. I think what's so compelling about this is how much the audience is into the performance. Only
Po Pi Po has more audience involvement, but it's a little silly for making that kind of statement.
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