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Author Topic: Hologram concerts Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-18-2012 05:09 AM                        Watch this (perhaps with the sound off would be best unless you like this kind of music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVGIRsKXdo While 2-pack looks very, very CG and fake, I am more interested how this works technically. They do this same shit in Japan a lot with anime dolls dancing and singing. It's rather creepy. It all looks very convincing on Youtube. But is it really a 3D projection where I could walk around it and see it from any angle? Or is it a 2D image projected onto some kind of transparent material? Pepper's Ghost?  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-18-2012 06:04 AM                     Right, Joe... a variation on Pepper's Ghost. Definitely not a hologram...just bright projection on a mylar film. Here is a Japanese version.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-18-2012 08:49 AM                     One news story said the image was projected on an angled piece of glass. Not really a hologram. But the press doesn't believe in accuracy anymore these days anyway. Hyperbole and inaccuracy is the new truth. And that's because so many of the viewers out there in TV land are stupid enough to believe it. In short, this whole digging Tupac from the grave thing is much ado about nothing.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-18-2012 10:32 AM                     Yes. Pepper's Ghost. If you've ever gone to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, similar effects are used there. We have done a variation of this on our stage using a black, scrim and a video projector. Clarke's Law #3: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Corollary: Any sufficiently stupid population is unable to distinguish technology from magic.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-18-2012 12:02 PM                     You can clearly see the mesh screen at the very start of the Japanese video I posted above.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 04-18-2012 01:15 PM                     And rats, the video has been pulled. AJG  |  IP: Logged

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