In a matter of moments, Tupac Shakur rose from the floor of the stage and greeted his Death Row brethren. The performance, which was livestreamed worldwide on YouTube, ended with the virtual Makaveli returning to center stage, bowing his head and then disappearing in a burst of fragments. Croshaw remembers dead silence from the crowd, before a heartbeat appeared on the LED screens flanking the stage and Eminem came out to the sounds of cheers. The happiness at the end. Kind of like childbirth, actually … the hardest, most painful thing ever, and then after you have the baby you forget about all the pain.
If creating a virtual human being is scary, watching one is, as well. One of my friends who was really high got really upset that 2Pac was dead and why are we doing this. A few were confused and thought he might be alive now. The debut performance sparked rumblings that Dr. But rumors were quickly squashed by the man himself.
Dre said in a video message to fans before taking the stage during the second weekend of the festival. On that night, April 22, , Dr. Dre and Snoop shared a stage with their virtual homie one more time. And, per Dr. Tupac Shakur is dead. He was killed in , and despite his bold lyrical professions, the closest he ever came to making a return to this earth was five years ago in digital form on the Coachella stage. The digital asset that Digital Domain created has been archived. Aaron Dodson is a sports and culture writer at The Undefeated.
Up Next. Up Next From Culture. Twitter Facebook Email. Oh, my God. Courtesy of Digital Domain Technically? That was something that we really wanted to embrace, so we spent a lot of time on the smile shape. AV Concepts was charged with projecting the image of Tupac on the stage. Nick Smith, the company's president, told MTV it took several months of planning and four months of studio time to create the hologram.
This is not archival footage. This is an illusion," Ulbrich told the Journal. Dre has a massive vision for this. Although the perception was of a 3D likeness of Shakur, the image was actually a 2D image. Shakur's likeness was projected onto an angled piece of glass on ground, which in turn projected the image onto a Mylar screen on stage.
If you have your indoor lights on, people can see in but you can't really see out -- the light reflects back at you. If you turn off the lights inside, the opposite happens and people can't see you from the street. The same effect is in play with Pepper's Ghost: Trickery with your light source makes objects reflected in a glass look like they're on the other side of it.
The area where the image appears is built to be identical to the hidden area where the object actually is, so the glass we're looking at is actually doing double-duty: Both reflecting the hidden area the "blue room," in theatrical parlance and transparently revealing the area we're supposed to be looking at.
The illuminated objects in the hidden area, then, appear to hang in the room we're actually looking at. For the Tupac illusion, for example, the video was actually projected from above the stage, straight down onto a reflective surface that bounced the image up onto a Mylar screen for Snoop to sing along with. Because the only light source being reflected onto the screen was Tupac himself, the stage area and the mirror that bounced the image onto the stage foil looked exactly the same, letting Tupac's image hang in the air Leading up to the Republican National Convention, rumors were flying that a holographic Ronald Reagan was going to make an appearance at the event, but it didn't happen.
Apparently, the former president's digital debut was postponed after Republican activists voiced concerns that the spectacle would eclipse Mitt Romney's speech [source: Pfeiffer ]. Birthdays, accomplishments, any special occasions were, for me, chances to ask for a trip to the science museum.
From Phoenix to Albuquerque to Houston and San Antonio, my trips to health and science museums across the southwest are some of the best memories of my childhood. To this day, I still love animatronic dinosaurs and hope one day to own an army of them -- but my favorite up-close exhibits were always the ones that used the Pepper's Ghost illusion to transform my face into something else an ape's face, usually with hand-operated lights and mirrored glass.
They're scary and funny, and because the physics behind the illusion are so strong, just as visceral and fascinating 20 years later as they were when I was a kid. Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots.
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