OK, here we go…after the infamous Tupac Shakur hologram at Cochella a few months ago, now the stopper from the Genies bottle of hologram has been opened.

Queen has announced that they will bring Freddy Mercury back to the stage.

Queen guitarist, Brian May insists that it is will not be a hologram like Tupac’s but describes the effect as an “optical illusion” and furthermore, they have been working on this project for a while before the Tupac hologram appeared at Cochella.

So here we go, expect from now on a new onslaught of deceased singers/performers showing up at a venue near you for a “comeback from the grave” concert from now on.

OK, here we go…after the infamous Tupac Shakur hologram at Cochella a few months ago, now the stopper from the Genies bottle of hologram has been opened.

Queen has announced that they will bring Freddy Mercury back to the stage.

Queen guitarist, Brian May insists that it is will not be a hologram like Tupac’s but describes the effect as an “optical illusion” and furthermore, they have been working on this project for a while before the Tupac hologram appeared at Cochella.

So here we go, expect from now on a new onslaught of deceased singers/performers showing up at a venue near you for a “comeback from the grave” concert from now on.


It's creepy.  Creep-o-rama.

Just think, in a few years we'll be able to virtually experience Woodstock, only without the overflowing porta-potties and brown acid (which they keep trying to tell us were not connected in any way...  :P )

Are they going to be doing that with Michael Jackson too?  ::)

Are they going to be doing that with Michael Jackson too?  ::)


Maybe they could have Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston do a duet.  Donald "Duck" Dunn can play backing bass, and Dick Clark can emcee the event.  8)

Maybe they could have Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston do a duet.  Donald "Duck" Dunn can play backing bass, and Dick Clark can emcee the event.  8)


sounds cool but it would be real creepy.  :o

I still say it is only a matter of time before somebody starts producing "virtual porn of yesteryear" using the images of long-deceased porn stars like Linda Lovelace, Lisa de Leeuw, Johnny Wadd, Aunt Peg, Marilyn Chambers, Savannah, and others.  :P

I'm assuming that this technology will involve turning two-dimensional images into three-dimensional ones, so why not have virtual sporting events as well? Maybe in another 20 years people can sit down in their living rooms, put on some kind of virtual reality goggles, and be ringside at Ali vs Foreman or be in the stands at whichever Super Bowl or World Series or Indianapolis 500 they choose.

It's kind of scary, actually.  :o

I still say it is only a matter of time before somebody starts producing "virtual porn of yesteryear" using the images of long-deceased porn stars like Linda Lovelace, Lisa de Leeuw, Johnny Wadd, Aunt Peg, Marilyn Chambers, Savannah, and others.  :P


thats cool but only us old school guys would enjoy it. ;)

thats cool but only us old school guys would enjoy it. ;)


Well they could mix it up by including some of the current stars.  How about a "Girls Gone Wild" with Johnny Wadd mixed in the action? ???

Well they could mix it up by including some of the current stars.  How about a "Girls Gone Wild" with Johnny Wadd mixed in the action? ???


no Johnny Wadd, how about some girl on girl action.  ;)

ANYWAY, I don't like it.  Let the dead rest, I say.

ANYWAY, I don't like it.  Let the dead rest, I say.


I agree, Ash.

I'm assuming that this technology will involve turning two-dimensional images into three-dimensional ones, so why not have virtual sporting events as well? Maybe in another 20 years people can sit down in their living rooms, put on some kind of virtual reality goggles, and be ringside at Ali vs Foreman or be in the stands at whichever Super Bowl or World Series or Indianapolis 500 they choose.

It's kind of scary, actually.  :o


Actually you have a good concept going there. But lets extrapolate and take it a bit further…

Imagine if you will virtual sports events with long past sports figures competing with other past figures or current sports athletes?

Tired of that old argument that Muhammad Ali was a better fighter than the Brown Bomber (Joe Louis)? Well lets have a virtual 15 round fight with the hologram/virtual Joe Louis and virtual Ali (in his prime, of course) and let them go at it! What do you think the odds would go at in Vegas?
Much money to had on this, the possibilities are endless…we could have players that could of never played together before have a chance at it f’instance… hologram/virtual Babe Ruth come back from the dead to have a home run battle with Barry Bonds, OR have Bill Russell vs Michael Jordan…. you get where I’m coming from.

Now that the virtual Pandora’s box has been opened, why stop there? We could have (at great detriment to our society, that’s for sure) virtual POLITICIANS come back too. Imagine having Abe Lincoln, Nixon or JFK coming back from the grave to comment on the current US and World politics stage, OR even more frightening, run for office...

Heck, if you remember the Futurama episode, Nixon’s “head” (his head kept alive in a jar long into the future) won the Presidency of the World long after his body was dead, so maybe that was a prediction of the future to come?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvYm68dOQ4k

The possibilities are endless…and frightening.

Creeeepy.

It would be creepy if they bring back Donna Summer in a couple of years.  ::)

It would be creepy if they bring back Donna Summer in a couple of years.  ::)


I dunno.  Maybe she could do a remake of Love to Love You Baby with one of today's stars, like Ke$ha.

I dunno.  Maybe she could do a remake of Love to Love You Baby with one of today's stars, like Ke$ha.


That would be a good idea.

Actually you have a good concept going there. But lets extrapolate and take it a bit further...

Imagine if you will virtual sports events with long past sports figures competing with other past figures or current sports athletes?

Tired of that old argument that Muhammad Ali was a better fighter than the Brown Bomber (Joe Louis)? Well lets have a virtual 15 round fight with the hologram/virtual Joe Louis and virtual Ali (in his prime, of course) and let them go at it! What do you think the odds would go at in Vegas?
Much money to had on this, the possibilities are endless…we could have players that could of never played together before have a chance at it f’instance… hologram/virtual Babe Ruth come back from the dead to have a home run battle with Barry Bonds, OR have Bill Russell vs Michael Jordan…. you get where I’m coming from.


Yes, let's take it farther than just the appearance and dance styles.  No disrespect to Matt Groenig's Futurama, but Max Headroom covered this precise topic in 1987.

Carter: "'Cortically scanned and stored.' Which means there's a version of your personality, as of the day you were scanned, on tape at the temple. And the day you die, when your mortal remains go into recycling, that cortically-scanned file is opened and displayed... am I right?"


Now that the virtual Pandora’s box has been opened, why stop there? We could have (at great detriment to our society, that’s for sure) virtual POLITICIANS come back too. Imagine having Abe Lincoln, Nixon or JFK coming back from the grave to comment on the current US and World politics stage, OR even more frightening, run for office...


Precisely.

Carter: "Your relatives can come and have conversations with you... eeyuh."
Bryce: "Now that's where we start to run into some problems, Edison. You need billions of bits of memory, the kind we have here at Network 23, in order to duplicate just one personality."
Carter: "So... talking to your dead relative is like talking to... Teddy Ruxpin."
Bryce: "Yes."

  - Max Headroom, Deities, airdate Sep 25, 1987.

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  - Part 1 of 5, with parts 2, 3, 4, 5.

Best 48 minutes you'll spend.  (Hey, remember when a 60-minute show was 48 minutes of content and 12 minutes of advertising, and not 44 minutes of content and 16 minutes of advertising?  Yeah, 1987 was about that time.  On the other hand, in 1987, I'd have had to get your snail-mail addresses and dub a VHS tape in order to let you see it.  Now I just throw a few words in the general direction of the Googleplex, and it returns content.  Living 20 minutes into the future isn't all bad.  It took 25 years, but every episode of that show came true.)