Carl and Dennis as Holograms

[Jay]

Good taste will prevail.

Summer In Paradise.

[guitarfool2002]

Related note: Michael Jackson's brothers are talking up a tour and they mentioned possibly having a hologram of Michael for the shows. The idea was discussed with the Cirque du Soleil show but it's a hot topic again:
http://www.eonline.com/news/marc_malkin/move_over_tupacmdashmichael_jackson/309702

As the Tupac appearance was discussed, there were other virtual concerts with Sinatra, Elvis (as mentioned), and other artists mentioned as "virtual concerts" that were already staged and which fans already paid to see, so if it's not the fact that the hologram is 3-D and more lifelike if that's possible, it's not necessarily a new concept. And the Jacksons had this in mind two years ago as the article says.

Remember Natalie Cole's televised duet with her father's image projected on a screen? This just seems to be the next step. I guess the Cole performance sparked a lot of debate too, if I remember.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Actually a while ago before that Tupac hologram thing happened, i read via some Beach Boys fans on Tumblr something like "so Al Jardine told me yesterday they're talking about making a Dennis Wilson holorgam" don't know the source or whatsoever but yeah, who knows.

[Emdeeh]

No holograms for me.

In addition to tributes for Carl and Dennis, I'd love to see the BBs run vintage footage of Denny exhorting the crowd to get up on their feet and dance (which served as Denny's signal for fans to come down in front of the stage) and then have someone onstage echo that call. And towards end of the show, the bookend would be vintage footage of Carl thanking the crowd "very, very, very, very, very, very much" for coming out to the show, again echoed by someone onstage.

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And here I was impressed by a hologram of a champagne glass they used to have at the "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" museum at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.  It was pretty cool, you could put your hand through it and it looked very real.  I also saw a hologram of Alice Cooper at the Salvador Dali museum in Florida.  In both cases, they were tiny, and in the case of the full-color Alice Cooper diorama, it didn't look nearly as real as the monochromatic champagne glass.  I have a hard time believing the technology has improved to the point that they can make holograms lifesize and moving.  According to a couple of article I've read, Tupac and the other "holograms" being discussed actually aren't real holograms.  They're just projections.  It's a bunch of hype.

An article in Forbes describes the technique used to bring Tupac to "life," and it wasn't a hologram (which uses laser beams), but a 3-D high-def projection with images from three angles projected on Mylar from another room, similar to a camera obscura. 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/17/tupac-hologram-wasnt-a-hologram-at-all/