An AI-powered Holographic Elvis Concert is Coming to Las Vegas (and the UK) (miamiherald.com) 39
Elvis Presley "will be stepping into his blue suede shoes once again..." according to an article in TheStreet, "thanks to the power of artificial intelligence."
The legendary singer from Tupelo, Mississippi, is set to thrill audiences in "Elvis Evolution," an "immersive concert experience" that uses AI and holographic projection. The show will debut in London in November. But if you can't make it to England, that's all right, mama, that's all right for you, because additional shows are slated for Berlin, Tokyo and Las Vegas, where Presley had a seven-year residency from 1969 to 1976.
"Man, I really like Vegas," he once reportedly said. The British immersive entertainment company Layered Reality partnered with Authentic Brands Group, which owns the rights to Elvis' image, to create the event.
"The show peaks with a concert experience that will recreate the seismic impact of seeing Elvis live for a whole new generation of fans, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy," Layered Reality said on its website. "A life-sized digital Elvis will share his most iconic songs and moves for the very first time on a UK stage." The company previously made immersive experiences based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and "The War of The Worlds."
"Man, I really like Vegas," he once reportedly said. The British immersive entertainment company Layered Reality partnered with Authentic Brands Group, which owns the rights to Elvis' image, to create the event.
"The show peaks with a concert experience that will recreate the seismic impact of seeing Elvis live for a whole new generation of fans, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy," Layered Reality said on its website. "A life-sized digital Elvis will share his most iconic songs and moves for the very first time on a UK stage." The company previously made immersive experiences based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and "The War of The Worlds."
Wut? (Score:4, Insightful)
A life-sized digital Elvis
I don't get it - they have a chance to make an elvis that will be visible even far back, and they go with "life-size". Make 'em big, FFS, make 'em 50 meters tall, make 'em real terminators.
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My mum has been to the previous concerts, with a holographic Elvis but without any AI. The idea is to replicate the experience of seeing him live, like she did decades ago, and she said it was really good.
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The only way to replicate the experience is a time-machine. Which is, for now, impossible.
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Well, people seem to like it. But maybe you are right and those guys who have been putting this show on internationally for years are wrong, and if only they'd have asked you first they could have made twice as much money.
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I really don't care how much money they made peddling a fake Elvis.
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You'd be able to see through him pretty easily if he was 50 meters tall, I think as a hologram? As a robot, that may be doable with fiber composites. A 50 meter lifelike Elvis, with face muscles and such just like a smaller one would have. Nice.
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Yes, he could squash the fans better than the Michelin-man in Ghostbusters. I'd subscribe to a pay-per-view service to watch it.
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Cry me a river, Stormtrooper Spock.
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Nuclear Elvis, I like it :)
What is the future like? (Score:2)
People want to get paid. The people who control the venues don't want to have to pay anyone beneath them.
So what happens once there are enough holographic entertainers with enough of a catalogue that you can't see them all in your lifetime? How much worse does it get once the media conglomerates can pay a one-time fee to a team of techies to create a 'new artist' out of whole cloth, or to have AI generate new tunes for old artists?
Live performances are going to get rare, and it's going to be very difficul
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Oh, noes. You mean no more Madonnas, Britney Spearses and Taylor Swifts? Maybe you exaggerate a bit.
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he has a point. once the entertainment industry can get rid of musicians, musicians will be free to pursue real creativity and soul soothing. ofc they will probably need a side job, but that's life, and i honestly don't think there will be less of them. there's a huge lot of people who loves making music just for the pleasure of it (like myself) and doing amazing stuff (very unlike myself) the industry never gave a crap about anyway.
don't worry, as an entertainment consumer you will hardly appreciate any di
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Madonna knew how to keep the mob interested. Britney knew how to do as she was told. Taylor Swift is a sad case - I think she's actually very talented and turning out generic pop because that's what sells... like she doesn't have enough money by now.
All of them are, as you imply, not great reasons to want live performers as they are all emergent properties of the music industry's algorithms.
But if you cut the top 1% or so off the industry, there's a strong B-tier that might not exist with the downward pre
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Oh, noes. You mean no more Madonnas, Britney Spearses and Taylor Swifts? Maybe you exaggerate a bit.
No, what it means is you'll be living with the same Madonna, Brittany Spears and Taylor Swift until hell freezes over.
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LOL, yeah, except it ain't happening. Do you eat the same processed cheese every day?
Will we need teachers? (Score:4, Insightful)
So what happens once there are enough holographic entertainers with enough of a catalogue that you can't see them all in your lifetime?
What happens when there are enough video lectures of college courses online that you can't see all of *those* in your lifetime?
There are tons of video lectures explaining... well, everything, sorted by quality (rated by viewers) so that a student never has to see a poorly presented topic.
In fact, if you view a lecture and don't understand it, it's easy to find videos that present the same information in different ways. You can keep reviewing the information until the light bulb in your head gets turned on.
Will we eventually stop needing professors, or even teachers?
Re: Will we need teachers? (Score:2)
There are already more songs and books and movies than I can consume in a lifetime.
Re: What is the future like? (Score:2)
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People want to get paid. The people who control the venues don't want to have to pay anyone beneath them.
So what happens once there are enough holographic entertainers with enough of a catalogue that you can't see them all in your lifetime? How much worse does it get once the media conglomerates can pay a one-time fee to a team of techies to create a 'new artist' out of whole cloth, or to have AI generate new tunes for old artists?
Live performances are going to get rare, and it's going to be very difficult to become a popular act if you're a flesh-and-blood human.
Somehow? I don't see the live music bar scene changing that much. Live music has been with us as long as music has been with us. It's not going to go away just because the owner class want control of it. The "big" shows? Sure. But those have already become completely unaffordable to most of us. I'm sure as shit not paying 300-500 bucks to go some some group of folks that need propped up on stage to play their guitars for a forty minute set. Let them replace that shit with holos and AI (though why you need A
Life imitates art... (Score:2)
In this case, some wierd Douglas Adams novel.
Bullshit level over 9000 (Score:2)
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i don't think this is bs, dunno about this specific venue, but this stuff is very real. vocaloids and holoprojections are already a big thing and getting bigger. this isn't even the first case of explotation of resucitated myths and celebrities through tech. it's way cheaper + has a lot less inherent risk + masses munch it down just the same = expect more of it.
above all things, fans want to fan. the object is always negotiable.
Blade Runner 2049 (Score:1)
They should pop for the extended warranty. It was already breaking down by 2049.
Best act since the Archies (Score:4, Funny)
A holographic Elvis is kind of the same thing.
Re: Best act since the Archies (Score:2)
ahh (Score:3)
Smart picking an artist whose audience's average age is like 85.
Fat and sweaty Elvis? (Score:4, Funny)
Do we get to see the hologram morph into a burger devouring pill popping sweaty obese sequin popping crooner?
If not, I'd want my money back.
What version? (Score:3)
Will this be young greaser-haired Elvis or the Fat, Cheesburger White Sequined Sunglass-wearing version?
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So this is how it starts (Score:3)
When Deckard is tracked down to the ruins of Las Vegas, he fights "Joe" among a badly working holographic montage of Elvis in concert.
Now we know where it all started.
I don't understand.. (Score:3)
..why there seems to be so much interest in old stuff
Far too many movies are reboots, remakes, sequels or adaptations of old ideas
Pundits imagine using AI to bring back dead stars
WTF???
Believe it or not, there are creative writers, actors and musicians making new stuff, some of it is really good
We need to let the past go
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Actually... there's really not much 'new'. Never was in human history. It's the same stuff over and over, just with the superficial aspects mixed up a bit.
A lot of creative people are trying to make improved versions of what they enjoyed most during their formative years, for an audience that is either A) too young to know they're getting remakes, or B) old enough to enjoy it - as long as it's not a 'perfect' thing where a remake is 'sacrilege'.
If you fit into category C (you know you're getting remakes a
Thank you. Thank you very much. (Score:1)
Blade Runner (Score:2)
Sounds we are going for "peak fake"... (Score:2)
Because that is what this is, nothing else. Pathetic.