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A computer program becomes a pop star... - 11/7/2015 6:53:00 PM

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I remember being in college back in the 1970s and getting a monochromatic hologram to dance to music was a laboratory phenomenon with some of the Physics graduate students. I'd say the technology has become mature.

Coupling the sampled voice of a professional voice actress into a real time instrument to play the vocals with a real time holographic animation you can create a "vocaloid".

I give you as example, Hatsune Miko, vocaloid pop star live in concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoTd918zhZc

Now if they had her playing an Eigenharp; it would be even more awesome. <grin>

http://www.eigenlabs.com/

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RE: A computer program becomes a pop star... - 11/8/2015 5:43:17 AM

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Yeah, Japan has a real problem with untold millions of poorly socialised young men who lack confidence and are so unable to talk to women they've actually given up on sex altogether.

So, yeah - they're pretty much the kind of men who'd go to a concert for a cartoon. Normal people - not so much.

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RE: A computer program becomes a pop star... - 11/8/2015 10:03:19 AM

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I was mainly geeking on the tech making a Vocaloid capable of a live performance.

For the U.S.; I think a Vocaloid of famous singers of yesteryear performing new modern material would play better than bringing Anime characters to the stage.

As to the Otaku phenomenon and groups adopting androgynous asexual lifestyles; that may be an expression of population density.

The effects of population density have been studied for years. In rodent studies, one of the common things that happen with excessive population density is a part of the population opting out of the reproduction gene pool. And increased aggressive behavior increases to the extreme.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636191/

Certainly the gender variant culture and hyper-violence of urban areas today fit the theoretical models. I think Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" was influenced in the studies that came out a few years before his script was penned. But, in the real world we have gang wars more often that household invasions as that movie portrayed.

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RE: A computer program becomes a pop star... - 11/11/2015 7:31:27 AM

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Really! Well frankly it does not surprise me! Many a failed popular music artiste, usually a failed top 1000 chart topper reverts to doing something other so why not a computer programmer?

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