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While this does not qualify as new news at all, I still think this should be something that all of you should take a look at.

The Japanese have made a lot of crazy things, but the fact that they have this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UzuCVDZSv0&feature=fvst

Definitely tops as one of their best works. A Projection. YES. A Projection has made thousands of people swarm the ticket offices to watch virtual people sing.

What are you thoughts? I personally enjoyed the music, but is it really necessary to sell this for a concert?

Lol. That's pretty cool and a bit weird at the same time.

It's just like going to see the Gorillaz! *is shot*

I want to go to Japan even more now. @_@

I suppose calling it a concert is a bit cheap since its basically a lip-syncing hologram, but I guess it would still be entertaining to see an anime character moving around on a stage in a 3D form.

That's crazy...but honestly...I like actual people. I know...boring right?

I also love the Gorillaz...juss sayin'.

nin10mode wrote:I want to go to Japan even more now. @_@

I suppose calling it a concert is a bit cheap since its basically a lip-syncing hologram, but I guess it would still be entertaining to see an anime character moving around on a stage in a 3D form.

Well actually, it's a program called Vocaloid. The sounds were originally human, but they did something with the recorded person's speeches and made the song out of that.

. . . *searches Vocaloid on google*
Okay then. But the synthesized song is coming from a speaker, right? The hologram was programmed to lip-sync it?

Or is it actually 'singing' it?

True, but I dunno, lipsynching just implies something... Worse. Eh, anyways, Japan has found an easy way of entertaining folks, and the good thing is, if the singer is a snob, they can just reprogram her.

Ohai Bump. I'm changing this to the VOCALOID topic for everyone to share their Vocaloid goodies.

Speaking of which...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwJ_tkgx ... re=related
I found this thing called MikuMikuDance, which is basically a program to make 3D models dance to songs and such, and while I see some of them as a bit too robot like, there are some very good ones out there. This one doesn't have dancing, but it was still very excellently made.

I thought I'm come here just to say that Vocaloid is teh ♥♥♥♥.