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Notorious B.I.G. Hologram is Going on Tour

RESPECT. Staff — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:22:46 +0000

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Stop the presses- the late great King of Rap, Notorious B.I.G. will be coming to stage a near you. ARHT Media announced Monday (April, 11) it has officially secured the rights to the late rapper’s likeness and intends to create a traveling “HumaGram” that will bring the performer back to the stage once again. The company will resurrect the famed rapper as a hologram.

What’s more, Holo-Biggie will move and act just like his fleshy predecessor. “We’ll use input from virtually anywhere so we’ll talk to people, we’ll obviously look through existing footage,” ARHT CEO Paul Duffy told Billboard. “We’ll meet with family members and just look to alternately capture the essence of Biggie. Then we’ll have their eyes on all the content and material that’s being built. Of course, nothing would be released until they felt comfortable and signed off on it.”

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B.I.G’s resurrection is part of a growing trend in turning iconic performers into -holograms. ARHT confirms other holographic celebrities including Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx.

The Los Angeles-based ARHT Media intends to tour the hologram for arena performances and media campaigns using patent-pending technology described as a “scalable, repeatable and transportable form of 3D without the use of special glasses,” which allows audiences to interact with the projections within retail displays, tradeshow booths, and during other live events.

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“This project has been a long-time coming, and it is very special to me. Words can’t even capture how elated I am for the world to finally see my son again on stage and beyond,” B.I.G.’s mother, Voletta Wallace, said of the project via press release. “[His] impact and legacy will not only live through his past work, but also the new experiences which have been made possible through ARHT Media.”

Check out Biggie’s last performance below:

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Photo Of The Day: Thug Life

RESPECT. Staff — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:35:31 +0000

No hologram Pac here. This is the real deal thanks to photographer Mike Miller. Catch more of his work in the latest issue of RESPECT. Yup! That Drizzy cover. Out now!

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The Tupac Hologram Wasn’t Actually a Hologram, But Here’s How It Worked

RESPECT. Staff — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:21:36 +0000

Gizmodo reports:

We already knew that the Tupac Hologram wasn’t really a hologram but actually just a modern regurgitation of the old mid-19th century trick known as “Pepper’s Ghost”. If you were confused on how that illusion worked, be confused no more! Here it is.

Roxanne Palmer at the International Business TImes made this infographic that clearly illustrated how the whole hologram shenanigans worked. AV Concepts, the company behind the fauxlogram, used Musion Systems Ltd.’s Musion Eyeliner setup to project a 2D animated Tupac onto an invisible (to the audience) screen to make him look 3D.

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MTV Interviews the Creator of the Tupac Hologram

RESPECT. Staff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:02:08 +0000

The most talked about aspect of Coachella was undoubtedly the Tupac hologram (which, of course, already has a parody Twitter account). Now, MTV caught up with the president of AV Concepts, Nick Smith, the man behind the creation. Smith says that the company has the ability to visually recreate the dead. “You can take their likenesses and voice,” he says. “[You] can take people that haven’t done concerts before or perform music they haven’t sung and digitally recreate it.”

Though Smith wouldn’t put an official pricetag of Makaveli’s hologram, he did say an average range is roughly between $100,000 and $400,000:

The Tupac hologram was several months in the planning and took nearly four months to create in a studio and though Smith was not able to reveal the exact price tag for the illusion, he said a comparable one could cost anywhere from $100,000 to more than $400,000 to pull off. “I can’t say how much that event cost, but I can say it’s affordable in the sense that if we had to bring entertainers around world and create concerts across the country, we could put [artists] in every venue in the country,”

Who’s ready for Puff to bring out Biggie at Summerjam? You know it’s probably inevitable, unfortunately. Check out the full MTV article here.

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