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Hatsune Miku. She’s a Japanese pop diva who’s just started to play massive stadium concerts to sold out crowds. Her hair is blue, she dresses like Sailor Moon, and she’ll only appear in concerts via a 3D ‘hologram’. Oh, and did I forget to mention that she’s completely fictional?

http://singularityhub.com/2010/10/20/th ... ram-video/


However... if you read that entire article you'll read that this started off as a PC desktop application in which users can write their own music to be sung by one of the virtual avatars. The software uses a voice synthesizer developed by Yamaha known as Vocaloid. This uses a human voice as base which it then synthesizes into the notes that need to be sung. There's a random demo available of a male voice. That tech is pretty spiffy and I can very much see the appeal of it. Just a shame that this is all dressed up in a Japanese sailor moon manga thing. This tech must be awesome if it's implemented in one of the Rock Band or Singstar games.

William Gibson predicted this in Idoru. It's weird seeing fiction become reality.

sounds like a more advanced version of autotuning to me.

also,

using iZotope’s real-time pitch detection and pitch shifting middleware, Rock Band 3 provides players with the option to enable vocal effects commonly used in the music industry, assisting players to sing on key more easily with pitch correction and bringing the tools that pros use into the living room

really old.

I thought maybe you were posting about a new version being released or something.

I've had the vocaloid software for a while but haven't actually played with it at all for some reason.

Thats really cool.

I think I would rather go see this than Justin Bieber. At least it's visually entertaining even if the music is just as deafeningly bad. Maybe they should use this for a Gorillaz concert.


Oh, and derp! JAPAN!

reminds me of sharon apple from macross plus.

though that sharon apple concert was pretty cool visually.

Mat Linnett wrote:William Gibson predicted this in Idoru. It's weird seeing fiction become reality.

he also predicted rastas in space

i ain't seen none

also, i think i died a little inside watching that video

Memphis wrote:what the fuck did i just watch
ps: glowsticks lol. and you'd kinda think what with all the jazz going into animating a jailbait scantily clad mangaslag to sing a song, they'd at least give her a halfway decent singing voice.

I think you kinda missed the point

obsidian wrote:I think I would rather go see this than Justin Bieber. At least it's visually entertaining even if the music is just as deafeningly bad. Maybe they should use this for a Gorillaz concert.


Oh, and derp! JAPAN!

That is beyond creepy...

what... the fuck...

haha.

I do love the japanese

Chupacabra wrote:reminds me of sharon apple from macross plus.

though that sharon apple concert was pretty cool visually.

exactly what i was thinkin.

is it just me or is japanese youth culture is creepy?

it's evolving

obsidian wrote:I think I would rather go see this than Justin Bieber. At least it's visually entertaining even if the music is just as deafeningly bad. Maybe they should use this for a Gorillaz concert.


Oh, and derp! JAPAN!

look at those man hands

/seinfeld

Memphis wrote: how so? having a hologram perform a concert is a bit more advanced than the electronic vocals. i think it's fair to criticise the vocals that support all the visual whizzbangery for being shite

Not really. If you follow the link they provided, it's a really old trick. The only major innovation for the "hologram" is the thin, transparent film it's being projected on.

It's not a 3d hologram, it's a video being projected on a diagonal piece of film.

What the fuck is wrong with Japanese people?

phantasmagoria wrote:

it's evolving

Tuh-WISTED!!

(kinda liked it)

Needs more tentacles.

I keep finding myself going back to this video. It's got some kind of hold on me

You're turning Japanese
I think you're turning Japanese
I really think so

Not Japan but close enough

English teachers replaced by robots

phantasmagoria wrote:I keep finding myself going back to this video. It's got some kind of hold on me

Because you're a ped0phile that wants to get fisted by reciprocating robots.
That and you like shit music.

"Yeah. You know what the fuck this is"

No. Really, I havn't got a clue what the fuck this is.

Shit is whack, yo.

lol nigger music