Oh well, I spent the whole day playing with photoshop so I didn't have time to prepare anything so chances are you have seen this ^_^
This is Hatsune Miku, world's most famous "virtual diva". Wth virtual diva? yeah, that's how people usually refer to her. She is basically a voice bank from a singing synthesizing program from Yamaha, Vocaloid 2. Pretty much you can use her to sing for you if you suck at it (and know japanese because is the language she is avaiable at)
She gained a lot of popularity thru japan and around the world after many developers used the voicebank to perform songs. What I find interesting about it is, that all the developers have been eventually creating her a "personality" thru all the songs they have been making. Da fk, how can they do that? I don't really think it was intentional, but the lyrics usually have a lot of meaning and often tell a story helped with anime-like images based on the original concept art of the voice bank. So at the end, new creatos took that as established and was base for the next songs and so on. Same happened with the new voicebanks they have been developing. Everyone has a different personality wich has been growing since they came out.
Below is a link of one of Mku's concerts. Wait how does a virtual character has a concert? Since they have become really really popular in Niconico Douga (Some kind of japanese youtube) the creators performed a concert with the most famous songs using a live band, but playbacking the vocals. And since they are japanese, they did a full hologram of Miku to sing for the gathering of japanese freaks. Just check it out!
apparently my girlfriend likes vocaloid, and i'll try and post some women oriented posts :] thanks for the idea.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty strange lol. I guess it would be interesting to see.
ReplyDeletewow that mad.. that would be so cool to see i rekon..
ReplyDeletewow! a little bit creepy, but cool. the way of the future
ReplyDeleteThats japan for you
ReplyDeletesoon we'll be star wars in real life
ReplyDeleteminus the space people and awesome ships and almost everything else star wars had but still....
I love vocaloid myself especially Miku! Love is war is my favorite! (:
ReplyDeleteomg that is so cute. Why cant we have stuff like this in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteThat was quite possibly the most disturbing thing i've ever seen...
ReplyDeleteMan that is crazy, those Japanese are a strange bunch.
ReplyDeleteweird. but cool i guess! :P
ReplyDeletewow science fiction coming to life
ReplyDeleteBecause i mean who wants to see real people anyway?
ReplyDeleteLasers, man. Frickin lasers.
ReplyDeleteAwesome stuff
ReplyDeleteInriguing... following
ReplyDeleteWhat has science done!?! Everything awesome, that's what.
ReplyDeleteyou're kidding, we develop holograms and this is what we do with it. I cant believe how good it looks, you'd seriously think someone was dancing on stage.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff!
ReplyDeleteI've heard about this and seen a few spoofs. Great post
ReplyDeleteWow I didn't know they used holograms, I though they were normally just big monitors. Pretty cool, gotta say I'd go to that concert.
ReplyDeleteI saw that video awhile back. Kinda trippy.
ReplyDeleteidk
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed it
ReplyDeleteCNN have any insight on this? Oh wait, their's was a FAKE hologram
ReplyDeleteDamn, that's really cool. Voicebanks ARE great, in case anyone was wondering haha
ReplyDeleteNot sure but they are in the process of making hologram hard drives
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Wow thats pretty sweet,nice blog definitely following.
ReplyDeleteLeave it to the japanese to do this :p
ReplyDeleteHow strange. But, I am fascinated.
ReplyDeletethis is amazing stuff! i cant wait till this technology is widespread its gonna be soooo cool
ReplyDeleteit is strange :)
ReplyDeletei like it, it's strange but i think it's cool and cute
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