Upcoming Our Lady Peace Tour will take the holograms in the concert to the next level-nationwide

Everything I know about holograms I learned from either Star Wars Also Star Trek.. Glitch SOS to Princess Leia’s Obi-Wan Kenobi was projected onto Luke Skywalker, who was embarrassed by R2D2.Holodeck that sometimes malfunctions USS Enterprise.. acerbic Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I on Voyager.. All technologies in the distant future — or thought so.

Everything began to change 15 years, 7 weeks, and 3 days after Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by in Las Vegas on the third day of the 2012 Coachella Festival. A ghostly appearance appeared during the Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg set and immediately spoke to the crowd. “What a hell, Coachellaaaaaa!” After that, he released several songs that surprised the audience and the concert industry spurred ideas for a future revival.

Progress is slow, but hologram performance is more general and much more sophisticated. The two-pack show included 2D images based on the 19th century trick Pepper’s Ghost. This was reproduced by what the same special effects team worked on for Coachella. Titanic With James Cameron. Recent performances by dead artists (Ronnie James Dio, Roy Orbison, Whitney Houston, etc.) use different types of projection techniques that look much more realistic.

The Japanese take things in a different direction with a performance by Miku, a crazy and famous pop star (formally known as “Vocaloid”) who sells thousands of tickets where “She” appears. I have advanced.

Meanwhile, ABBA fans are waiting for the opening of ABBA Voyage, which resides in a custom theater in London. The theater features cutting-edge avatars from each band member seen in the late 1970s. this is … oh..

The possibilities of the concert industry are virtually endless. As dead performers magically come back to life, this technology can be seen gathering fictitious supergroups.

Imagine, for example, Elvis, Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, and Keith Moon all playing in the same band. Those who want to do this say we’re pretty close to technology. The driving force behind this is the billions of dollars spent buying catalogs of heritage artists’ songs. You need to get that money back and make a profit. Using hologram performances, these artists will continue to sing their songs for decades to come and generate income for their rights holders.

This will take you to Our Lady Peace and The Wonderful Future Theatrical Hologram Experience, a tour starting June 6th in Victoria B and C. I heard a rumbling about something interesting, so I contacted the singer. Rain Maida.

Mida goes on to say: , And dig deeper into some of these predictions, such as the world’s basic income, and use computers, computers that have passed the Turing test, and singularities to completely correct climate change. It’s okay to have him in between the songs on the album, but now you can get him to talk about these things on stage. As a hologram. “

And that’s not all. “There are various components to this. Molly is part of this show, as is the new, much more advanced AI called Cassandra created by Ray. From there, we got the chance. And I think we’re going to surprise some fans. We’re now able to welcome guests to a stage like never before. Hopefully it’s just a big sight at the end of the day. is.

“We are working with this amazing Canadian company called ARHTMedia. I can’t tell the difference. If you’re standing in front of their holograms, I think they’re there.”

Holograms are produced by three heavy “capsules” that are used in unprecedented ways.

Mida says fans will come across these works as soon as they enter the theater. She said, “In the lobby, there is actually a hologram that greets the people that Molly comes in. People stare at this hologram and will probably be robbed of our merchandise sales!

“Fans will see old faces that they haven’t seen in a while. (Spoilers: Former OLP lead guitarist Mike Turner appears as a group of focused photons.)

“This is a 100% rock concert, but there is an aspect of this theater. And we are blending all types of technology, just like when you go to see a play like this: , People will be given playbill Hamilton — But as an NFT. It will be a real leap in technology for us.

“Fingers crossed it all working!”

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Alan Cross is a broadcaster with Q107 and 102.1 the Edge and a commentator on Global News.

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