Creators Project: “The Newest Japanese Pop Star Is A Hologram”

link: http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/the-newest-japanese-pop-star-is-a-hologram-video

This strikes me as another prime example of New Media moving out of the “box” (tv, computer ect) and blurring the lines between our digital and ‘real’ lives, but something about a huge crowd cheering on a computer animation is still deeply unsettling to me.

Also, I found it interesting to note that although the hologram tours with a live backing band, the singing is synthesized digitally.

(note: always the skeptic; I couldn’t actually find any mention (or pictures) of the hologram project on the Crypton Future Media website, so I’m sort of wondering if this is real.. but then again, I can’t read Japanese.)