Did you know that holograms actually exist outside Star Trek and the likes?

That's a hologram with synthetic voice that's dancing over here:



Watch this vid @ Youtube (new Window)

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Nooooooo waaaaaaaaaayyyy!!!!!!!!!!!

Not about the hologram, but the fact i saw that video today. Friend showed it to me, and i get back home and i see my brother posted it on dswp. omg.

Vocaloid has artificial voice, now and body. Soon crazy japanese will make "real" holograms... Talking to "machines" is not so far from us.

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Yep, Voyager's "The Doctor" Joe might turn out to be quite possible before 24th century. I'm really looking forward to an EMH.

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sadly that's just a projection on a transparent surface, but Vocaloid sure is impressive (some videos were discussed a while back in IRC as well)

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Hatsune miku, pssssht you weeaboo's

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But you can see the projection from different angles and it is thus a 3D projection, which is the very definition of a hologram - wholepicture.

I didn't say that it can walk around among people like an EMG from the Star Trek, but they might find a way to project it into the air in the future.

Is that all you can observe in such a technological breakthrough?

Who's a weeaboo now?

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ye we were talking about some earlier non-hd vid of the same show.

its fukin amazing, thats all i can say.
and fukin shameful for the rest of the world diggin in its nose while japan advances.

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hm, could it be that the rest of the world dont need some extra- artificial singer?

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The gorillaz?

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think of it - artificial ones are much better from music business point of view. they dont do drugs/alcohol to damage themselves and corporate profits, all intellectual property rights owned by the corporation, they wont get old, they cant break the contract with the corporation and go rogue/independent, you can make whatever singer for any genre and market niche, you wont have to pay them ANY money and so on. its even kinda strange sony music and their friends havent done this already on a large scale, but i guess they will soon. you only need some 3d artists, some musicians - and you ready to make huge profits.

i guess you'd say here real human musician/singer is better than computer crap, but in reality if its shiney enough most people wont care a bit.

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