Hatsune Miku: Japanese HOLOGRAPH Plays Sold Out Concerts; Science Fiction Comes To Life (VIDEO)

In what is surely a terrible omen not only for musicians but also the continued existence of the world as we know it, holographs are now playing sold out concerts in, where else, Japan.

Holographic idol Hatsune Miku is the creation of the group Crypton Future Media, using software from Vocaloid, and the group has put the avatar on tour with a live band. The sight of thousands of screaming fans waving glow sticks while the the holograph "performs" on stage is straight out of a science fiction novel.

The avatar is huge and incredibly realistic. Check out "her" concert performance below. More videos can be found here.

WATCH: (DVice via Buzzfeed)

Comments

[sheoples]

04:51 PM on 12/30/2010

can some one explain to me how this was done?????

[sheoples]

04:48 PM on 12/30/2010

HOW THE HECK DID THEY PROJECT A 3D IMAGE THAT CAN BE VIEWED FROM 360 DEGREES????????

THERE ISN'T EVEN ANY SUBSTRATE TO PROJECT THE LIGHT ON TO IT SEEMS!!!!!!!

AMAZING!!!!!!!!

[Gabriel Garner]

08:29 PM on 12/15/2010

rosie is smiling

[Olivia McCormick]

01:27 AM on 12/10/2010

shes a iconic volcaloid, oh but im sorry you don't know what a volcaloid is? well for your note its a computer software that is STILL in work to synthesize human singers and she isn't the the only one, miku, luka, meiko, rin, len, kaito and such are all in work software that actually give a new door way to artist that want to try new medias and by the way shes not mice on helium, shes a robotic singer that still has kinks in her system, and ps Japanese grow up with eminem to, its called translations =.=

[Citizen P77]

10:57 PM on 12/05/2010

WTF?! lol...

[DoyouhaveaflagUK]

01:27 AM on 12/05/2010

Mice on Helium...interesting, and people pay money for this?

[DoyouhaveaflagUK]

01:25 AM on 12/05/2010

I don't get it...
If I wanted to see a 3-D cartoon wouldn't I just turn on the TV?

[Enliberate]

02:52 AM on 12/01/2010

I guess it's kind of impressive. Good luck having sex with her.

[Alex VanKooten]

01:55 AM on 12/02/2010

Good luck having sex with real famous musicians too....
I think your chances with Miku are better.

[Enliberate]

02:08 AM on 12/02/2010

Actually, the chances of my having sex with "real famous musicians" are undoubtedly greater than my chances with a hologram. Dig?

[PTorbay]

06:56 PM on 11/24/2010

This isn't a hologram. It's a green-screen projection on a translucent barrel vault over the stage.
You can see the real wrinkles in the animatronic actors leg stockings, same as Polar Express.

An Iranian-American scientist at a US university has invented infinitely scaleable 3D holographs,
yielding the possibility for a Ghost Busters-sized Obama towering over the WA DC mall in 2012.

No doubt ZinoPNAC lobby in Alexandria will find this an 'Islamic Jihad' threat, and shut it down.
Only PM Benjamin Netanyahu has the privilege of being larger than life poly-dimensional actor.

[directfitz]

01:07 PM on 11/22/2010

Beatles reunion?

[directfitz]

01:07 PM on 11/22/2010

Wait till Muse gets their hands on this!!!!

[mad as hell24]

01:23 AM on 11/20/2010

I could see it now. Two hundred years from now, an old guy sitting in a wheelchair - about to die - surrounded by avatars and robots. Caption reads, " The last living human Japanese". Sad.

[Kevin Riley in Osaka]

09:05 PM on 11/19/2010

Why I love living here. We do lead the way in weirdness.

[bruisers]

05:34 PM on 11/19/2010

Now if the music didn't suck so much.

[NelsonBig]

04:01 PM on 11/20/2010

Yeah. Too bad those Japanese don't listen to musical Geniuses like Eminem or Tupac.

[Watt D Fuch]

12:39 AM on 11/18/2010

The Gorillaz tour did the same thing to sold out crowds my daughter loves Hatsune Miku

[directfitz]

01:06 PM on 11/22/2010

I immediately thought of them. Do they do holograms?

[Watt D Fuch]

08:19 PM on 11/22/2010

Yes, they do. They even incorporated Madonna into the Act as herself (live) not a hologram.