Why the Michael Jackson hologram isn't actually a hologram
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Michael Jackson's "performance" as a hologram at last night's Billboard Music Awards caused mixed reactions - and for good reason. But while this might look like the future of posthumous performances, the technique itself is about five centuries old.
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Written and narrated by Ross Miller. Video production by Billy Disney and Jordan Oplinger.
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If they actually made him look like like what he looked like in 2009, people would *actually* believe it
@FrostyyBoi
Жыл бұрын
They made him look like his Dangerous era because the song is from the Dangerous era
I wish they would have explained how the trick works
@p5rsona
10 жыл бұрын
There's a video somewhere on ytube showing how. Basically an actor perfoms in a green room with cameras everywhere and his face is then recreated in cgi.
@tipinwings
7 жыл бұрын
It's a project on a semi-transparent screen.
@fortnutshell3509
6 жыл бұрын
They made a video of it, they did explain.
@user-nc4yb8rd3g
6 жыл бұрын
1:06
@windowlessroom6178
6 жыл бұрын
The video already gave you key words to search and told you the name of the effect... but there are two basic ways of doing it... direct projection or reflection... both have to do with a gauze-link screen material stretched across the area where you want the projection to appear
MJ hologram looked very poor, his face didnt even look like MJ, 2Pac one was the best i've seen.
@RAVIOLl
7 жыл бұрын
Anderson Silva Yeah the tupac hologram kinda hovered but it was still AMAZING
@timespark
7 жыл бұрын
thats what i thought
@azureazure7021
6 жыл бұрын
17jun1989 sameeeee
@Daddyvader7
6 жыл бұрын
17jun1989 it did look like MJ but before his final stage of surgery on his face
@tupacshakur3745
6 жыл бұрын
agreed
Whitney Houston's hologram is going on a world tour next year
@seangallagher4619
8 жыл бұрын
Are you serious?
@nelar860
7 жыл бұрын
XavianBrother wait what?
@heirmeeks4293
7 жыл бұрын
XavianBrother fr
@jessicaarmy-animegirl9454
7 жыл бұрын
XavianBrother 😂😂😂
@normal_media
7 жыл бұрын
Part of the Cavalcade of Corpses tour I believe.
I remember back in the day some arcade cabinets used this reflection/projection technique so you'd have a flatter/cleaner image.
Why do people still calling "hologram" to any translucent image they see? Btw, Miku uses another type of image system. Projectors are behind and there is not mirrors involved.
@fruitilp-dermeisterdesfail5887
4 жыл бұрын
I do like this better anyways :)..and it works siene 2009 xd
@RaulGonzales2010
2 жыл бұрын
The original hologram made in miroir by aliens
This hologram looks like a sims :(
@will-kl4xo
6 жыл бұрын
Syrine-San 愛 lol ikr
@ItzRobbie05
6 жыл бұрын
It's sim
@matthewpagan4644
6 жыл бұрын
How the hell does it
@George-fe5mf
6 жыл бұрын
Syrine-San 愛 so did mj
@lucious890
6 жыл бұрын
Nooo lol
it was a impersonator pretending to be a hologram
@fazepug1982
3 жыл бұрын
IT IS NOT A HOLOGRAM, please do not be misinformed by reporters using 'fancy' words to garner views
@JaiwenSeekolayt
12 күн бұрын
Yeah, Ernest Valentino
Ha ha I got to see Michael Jackson live 2 times in concert.I was at the victory tour in Philadelphia and the Bad tour in New York city .The hologram looks great except they could of done better with his face.The face could of been worked on better to make it look more like Michael Jackson.Still it was cool to see.I hope they make a better MJ hologram in the future.. :)
@CalvinCarlo
3 жыл бұрын
Could have*
@s_neyth778
3 жыл бұрын
how lucky????????
@AnsweringMusic
2 жыл бұрын
YOU. SAW. MICHAEL. JACKSON???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 tell me about it!!
@nawab256
2 жыл бұрын
In my opinion they kind of took back a few surgeries that he took his face and made him look normal and a bit more handsome.
The issue is not the holographic technique - the 3D image is a volumetric image (a type of hologram). It's the rendition. If you record someone from all angles, it will hold the uncanny valley effect back than if you try to recreate them using 3D software. The trick itself is not expensive... The animation - if they used an impersonator - using mocap and other techniques.... That's the expensive part.
OML PERFECT THUMBNAIL!!! MURDOC, TUPAC, AND MICHAEL
you didn't actually explain what you said on the tittle of the video!
@tipinwings
7 жыл бұрын
Tiago Barbs A hologram is by definition a projected image in the air. But this one is on a semi-transparent screen. That's it.
@big.pp.energy
4 жыл бұрын
Tittle
@NURS3Y
4 жыл бұрын
@@big.pp.energy XDD
@tiagomaqz
4 жыл бұрын
tipinwings Thanks for explaining. It makes sense now.
@caravan-7561
3 жыл бұрын
@@big.pp.energy tiddiele
The Tupac hologram had his hand and microphone cover his lips when he rapped, so they didn't have to worry about animating that part, just the physical moves.
0:43 no amount of liquor in this world can convince me that's a hologram
@harriettaking8126
6 жыл бұрын
Baller Life i agree
@Bumpyfn250
3 жыл бұрын
Fr
Saying these are holograms is like when a phone company says it's 800 x 480 phones are "True HD!" But in all honesty, I do like the effort.
Hope this keeps going in future bring back heroes so cool thanks
Just goes to show that money talks when it comes to Michael Jackson, people need to let him rest
@globalcitizenn
7 жыл бұрын
Adam Taylor Michael created the biggest brand in the world. Nothing tops brand Michael Jackson. Pepsi used it to become Cokes competitor, the Super Bowl used it to save itself, Sony used it to become the biggest name in music publishing. But sadly the allegations harmed the brand.
@hishers7980
3 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding me?? Do you actually think, just because media using his hologram, that he isn't at peace?? 🤔 Haha 😄
Michael Jackson's face looked artificial even when it wasn't CGI.
@haiggoh
10 жыл бұрын
good point.
@danmayorga9
10 жыл бұрын
Got that right
@moonwalker_forever1265
9 жыл бұрын
Oh fuck you all
@davidferrer__7112
9 жыл бұрын
To the people who find this offensive it's a joke guys :)
@jiminsfacewhenheseesjungko5250
9 жыл бұрын
Avihu Turzion so does your face
What's the point of a mirror if it would look exactly the same whether they were there or not?
I'm still wondering who's that impersonator,he did a bad job.He need more practice and he don't even look like MJ
@o0o7LMo0o
10 жыл бұрын
actually Michael Jackson Estate said : this is not a hologram and it isn't an impersonator . It is actually a 3d avatar of mj created by the estate , some of creator of this "hologram" worked on the movie Avatar . So it is like a character of some video game .
@Tech1Tv
10 жыл бұрын
Faisal Ahmad Yeah i know about it today,but it still don't look like MJ and the moonwalk was really bad.
@FrankyboyLegend
7 жыл бұрын
No, it's an impersonator. The Estate won't admit it but the moves match that done by Earnest Valentino. Look up "Earnest Valentino Dance". They could have opted for tracking MJ's motions from video footage (like people have done for Miku Miku Dance), and the impersonator in the Michael Jackson Experience game did a better job than this.
@aadilahmed7384
6 жыл бұрын
Tech1Tv they used CGI animation system to create him
@FrankyboyLegend
6 жыл бұрын
The motion capture was done using an impersonator named Earnest Valentino
This is eerie. 😱😱
I love that you mentioned Gorillaz because they are my favorite band . I enjoy listening to them & MJ.
I'm actually super impressed by how these projections were done
Being someone that's watched MJ like my life depends on it, the face was off, also, he had some grooves, but these were OFFFFFF.....I honestly think they just got a skinny person to do the dancing, then they drew/animated the face
0:44 Mr Stark, I don't feel so g...
That's so weird, they did that only 5 years after the man died.
But was it a digitally created face of MJ or the actual face (and body) of an imitator/lookalike?
i died when he said Hatsoon Miku
Published on my birthday
Miku desu!
@surreal6055
5 жыл бұрын
no anime
I love mj.....
It's not really a hologram of Michael, you can tell it's one of his impersonators. Sorry, good try though!
@andreww9726
6 жыл бұрын
I don't think it's an impersonator, at times the animation seems to have faults, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a pre-rendered projection , but it could very well be pepper's ghost. The sad thing is *so* many people see projections and instantly think "Hologram" or "pepper's ghost"... like at Hatsune Miku's concerts, which don't use pepper's ghost, just overlapping projectors
@windowlessroom6178
6 жыл бұрын
Actually, it was a projection. If it was an impersonator, it would have been clearer and without the fine white outline around him. I know the company that made the screens
@s_neyth778
3 жыл бұрын
me too think that is a impersonator.
@rock-ctherockstarclown1465
3 жыл бұрын
@@andreww9726 From an A/V engineer Saying "overlapping projectors" is a bit inaccurate. The way official Vocaloid concerts are produced involves the use of a material known as a DILAD Screen which bends the light to the viewer's eye. (when I set up this effect I prefer a different screen that scatters the light rather than bending it). My point is there is still a screen.
@omegavladosovich6757
2 жыл бұрын
@@andreww9726 it was an impersonator with MJ's face CGI'd over projected as a pepper's ghost. I can't find it now but on Instagram around that time there was a video taken by someone near the front row showing the flaws with the illusion - basically the whole projection was just on one sheet with a reflection of the whole projection along the ceiling. The only live dancers were those off the stage.
*It looked Pretty good, if they could take it up a knotch and improve it a little more make him appear closer that would be amazing*
holograms have shadows now,,,,ok
@ravekingdom9435
6 жыл бұрын
Hiz subscribe to me plz
@princevegeta9763
6 жыл бұрын
......you do realise everything has a shadow right? Even a box.... If the light off a phone can create a shadow why can't a hologram, your a dumbass, stay in school.
@notarapper8435
6 жыл бұрын
Prince Vegeta wait wut a box is a physical object he's talkin bout light
@rodrigoisar9050
6 жыл бұрын
NOT A RAPPER ? Maybe tricks with lighting
@JINX-The-Writer
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing lol
They have this at the Lincoln museum in Springfield IL
There is a nay at the end of hatsune
I actually liked this Verge Intro
I 💖 Michael
What’s the background music u have in the video
I always wanted to know how that was done, being a fan of K-POP and having friends that are fans of Vocaloids. (KPOP used these holograms a few times already)
I LOVE VOCALOID
R.I.P Tupac and Michael
Wow..
I need to go to a Xxxtentacion one but idk were to go for 1 or when is the next 1
What’s the background music for the video?
We should have our favorite celebrities in our home.
Wow nice future ahead
MJ’s face would look like that if he was still around now
Even if it's a hologram it is never the same to the real Michael
@CourtneyAmberXx
8 жыл бұрын
obviously but it's the next best thing were ever gonna get since he's passed away
@gabrielle5822
8 жыл бұрын
+Courtney Amber true
You forgot to mention they used an impersonator to do the dance. His name is Earnest Valentino.
The way you said hatsun…. HATSUNEEE
It has a shadow
Where can I see the ABC's Slave To The Rhythm Performance?
I like that music
Wow
bro this was 9 years ago imagine what they could make today, the michael jackson could look identical as if he was alive
What’s the music ur using?
what if its not a hologram what if its really him...
Heck, why not use it for Video game Characters, like Sonic, or Mario and friends?
So is Celine Dion and Elvis Presley duet in American Idol is a Hologram? (Is Elvis a hologram?)
wow
I'm too old for this...
eventually, the audience will need to be projected.
I find it dumb for them to use the pepper's ghost effect for these "holograms". The visuals are 2D. The only way I feel the illusion should be used is in Disneyland, where the ghosts in the haunted mansion actually take up 3D space. Might as well use a big monitor...
@tylerpoore97
10 жыл бұрын
If you see one in first person it'll change the way you think about it .... Trust me its awesome.
@normal_media
7 жыл бұрын
we are looking at a video of a hologram shot with a camera. not the same as being there.
I thought the Tupac hologram was a projected video on to a scrim (sheer fabric) no glass was used.
NFT's and live concerts now
"hotsoon miku"
Wow!
Young Robert Plant hologram would be nice
it cannot be peppers ghost if it is being rendered.
how come that of Michael Jackson is a hologram but the girl next his chair is touching his arm and mooves his jacket ?
@TakeFlightJaylenBackup
7 жыл бұрын
djmarwen11 *Illuminati song*
@normal_media
7 жыл бұрын
she's in the original video he was in. she's a holo too
@lw1343
7 жыл бұрын
djmarwen11 Stop....that's creepy stuff!!
@harriettaking8126
6 жыл бұрын
djmarwen11 right not a hologram
@matthewpagan4644
6 жыл бұрын
Idiot
This dude really said *hatsu miku*
Why does MJs hologram have a shadow?
I know that this “MJ” is Navi, Micheal Jackson’s friend who acts as him
It just made me upset.. I mean I liked it because, well, it's Michael. I just got a little depressed. Love you MJ!
the way that was put was like oh it must be a real living person yeah but not Michael a look alike but no misleading title
well clearly
Ya i know its a impersinator but the thing here is that the person is there is a hologram of mj's face it was taken as a picture and they made it to a hologram and connects it into the guys face then this person while the hologram is placed on the person this person became the hologram its not this mirror thing its a hologram you think its a hologram because the company that made tupacs hologram is not the same as the other company who made mj's performance
Is that Murdoc in the Thumbnail?!?!
well he didnt cover anything in any detail. We dont expect holograms to look like Star Wars. Star War holograms sucked. They were an animation of what someone though a hologram should be. WE'll see this technology go much further as plasma science and laser science unite and develop more.
Two kings Tupac and Michael
Infortunaly it's not the only subscript
i don’t know if this is bad
I think at the end of the day it doesn't matter a damn WHAT any of us think about it because it is out there now and it's going to become more common. There was a movie made in 2002 starring Al Pacino called, "Simone" which deals with this very subject. Pacino plays Victor Taransky, a movie producer who is sick of dealing with spoiled actresses's and having to cow tow to their every whim. Mainly a character played by Winona Ryder. He has film ideas but no one seems to appreciate or see his vision. Then a crazy genius named Hank comes up with a solution, namely a digitized actress named Simone. Hank dies but leaves his creation and new found technology to Taransky. What follows is an interesting plot. Especially when Taransky decides he is tired of riding on the coat tails of a performer who doesn't even really exist so he sets out to destroy her career by making a horrible movie titled, "I Am Pig". But to his amazement Simone has taken on a life of her own and people STILL love her, no matter what she does. Personally, I think the idea of music concerts is sort of cool. I can't imagine paying regular concert ticket prices to see a hologram but if the price were right, it would be fun and interesting to see John Lennon or Kurt Cobain or Janis Joplin "live" on stage again.
The Elvis hologram in Bladerunner 2049 was the best.
HATSUNE MIKU!!!! I LOVE HERRRRRR!!
HAHAHA!!! aaaaahhh the future... you just have to laugh about that one!!!!
@meeblings6
10 жыл бұрын
Are you ok
@rtycarp731
6 жыл бұрын
Annie
@tuyanaonnet5251
6 жыл бұрын
14supersonic are you ok, Annie?
@thebluegangsta8936
6 жыл бұрын
Annie are you okay?
Imagine this kind of Technology with Sonic and Friends. It would be LIT!
Pass
They soul taken let them rest in peace
I saw that hologram physically touch the girl from her arm moving up making his arm move up from the pressure of it now eigther someones a genius or a liar its such a slight movement of michaels arm and hand moving its hard to tell but last time i checked a hologram arm and can't be pushed slightly back up from a live person unless he's still alive or unless shes also a hologram.
1:01 president from India Yay
its a couple screens
Easy e was the best one i saw. Looked the most realistic
Did you notice the women get touched by his face in the beginning. It looked like they tried to make it look like a hologram, but it wasn't. Maybe it was him. Hmm
The mj perfromer is earnest valentino
Why micheal Jacksons hologram isn't actually a hologram its micheal jackson 👁👄👁
I feel they should've done the most popular song such as Billie Jean. But it was cool to see the King.
If you’re a theatre kid/theme park fan this is the most outdated tech ever lmao. Pepper’s ghost often appears flat or weird when it’s projections and not animatronics, not to mention seeing reflections on the glass that break the illusion.
@EskyFilms
2 жыл бұрын
Whats the newer one called?
im sorry am i the only one who heard his voice break at 0:25