Hologram of Tupac Shakur Performing

[Karl Valten]

Ran into this video yesterday. Yes...that is a freaking hologram.

This is a serious piece of tech. O_o

It's Tupac (hologram) and Snoop performing so naturally explicit lyrics as a heads up for you all at work and such.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l9yFYmboERs



(And once again the embed code doesn't work for my, the hell is going on with that?)


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[Figrin D'an]

Eh, let's not get carried away. It's not really a hologram. There's some high quality rendering that went into this, to be sure. But it's kind of an old technique applied and mixed with modern technology.

Ars Technica has a good article on it: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/tupac-hologram-merely-pretty-cool-optical-illusion.ars

Don't get me wrong; it's still pretty cool.

[Serena Laran]

You have to use the old youTube embed code. No, I don't know why, except that the new code uses iframes and those might be a big no-no here. Ogre or Morg would know.

On topic: I saw that on the news, and it was cool. :)