Monday, April 16, 2012

Tupac Hollogram and the Beatles

There is a large music festival in California called Coachella Music Festival. This year at the festival people were treated to a performance by Tupac Shakur. This was quite and achievement as he is dead. A full size hollogram of him performed along with two live musicians.

Here is a link to an article which includes some footage. Yahoo News - Stop The Presses - Tupac Hologram Cost Around $100,000 to $400,000, Dr. Dre Given “Blank Check” For Project. They say the audience didn't know what to think. I can only imagine how it freaked out the ones that were high as kites.

In the future they could make concerts of the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, heck, Michael Jackson can come back. Not only that but you could have concerts of people that showed their early and late performances in the same night. Just like the movie Avatar, your augmented reality can be your reality. If you grew up with it, you wouldn't know or care about the difference. How does that effect our long term ability to differentiate? What happens when reality ceases to be important and personal perceived and subjective experience is what matters?