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Videos of Japan’s 3D Hologram Rock Star Hatsune Miku in HD!

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November 9th, 2010 by Aaron Saenz
  Filed under 4, virtual reality.
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Virtual rocker, Hatsune Miku, is a star in HD!

Everyone gets a little obsessed with famous musicians now and then, but things get really weird when the famous musician is actually just a piece of software. Hatsune Miku is a rising star in Japan and abroad, singing catchy J-pop that matches her blue-green hair. She’s also a virtual avatar created by Crypton Media using Yamaha’s Vocaloid voice synthesizer. That hasn’t stopped her from amassing a legion of fans who really love her work. I mean really love it. Check out the crowd frantically waving glow-sticks and singing along with Hatsune Miku as she appears via a ‘3D hologram’ on stage in the videos below. Thanks to Klas Klazon for pointing us to these awesome HD clips of her work. The performances are from the recently released Blu-Ray/DVD collection of Hatsune Miku’s latest sold out concert in Japan: 39 Giving Day. This girl, er…program?, can really rock.

If you want to know more about Crypton’s Hatsune Miku and similar Vocaloid based characters check out my earlier coverage. I’m not sure I’m a big fan of ‘her’ music, but Hatsune Miku certainly has star talent. In these HD clips you can really see how eager the fans are, and how well they know her music. The mid-range shots of the crowd with Miku in the background also show how great her ‘hologram’ appears live on stage. Close-ups do reveal a bit of pixelation, but if I was in the crowd I don’t think I would have noticed this. Actually, I don’t think I would have noticed anything after Miku started dressing like a cat-girl. (Watch the 3rd video…Seriously, WTF?) The high definition quality only goes to show that Hatsune Miku, and other virtual rockers on the rise, can hold their own against their real-world counterparts. Who knows, maybe these software singers will grow to dominate the world of music. After all, human pop stars already seem like they were created in a science lab, why not just take the next step?

[screen capture and video credits: 39 Thanksgiving Day's Giving Day Project DIVA presents Hatsune Miku via SeyrenLK]

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  • http://twitter.com/mrschwabe Schwabe

    This is fked up

  • http://img.4chan.org/b/ Anonymous

    Goddamit Japan.

  • Andy Ford

    Max Headroom?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NYJYTVSJAFSAAV7ZPDM7NRCSVM Aaron

    Reminds me of the book IDORU by the cyberpunk author William Gibson.

  • Josephrosenblatt

    this is fantastic only in japan

  • dg

    Well, she’s good — but she’s no Sharon Apple.

  • dg

    Well, she’s good — but she’s no Sharon Apple.

  • Warkz

    Strange to think that in just a few short decades, we are now realizing machines into reality.

  • Unixmonkey
  • Anonymous

    Sharon Apple really cool would definitely pay a ticket for that V.i concert

  • Uzza

    There are many more videos available on SeyrenLKs channel.
    Here are some that I really like myself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dopx17w2Rcg – From Y to Y
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PAoIuoce20 – Alice
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-A0Bt1fUg – Innocence

    I’m a bit mad at them not doing the full song of Innocence though.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50thNS5bWA8

  • MagicShell 101

    Hey awesome. Looks like Sharon Apple from Macross Plus finally showed up to a gig.

  • Xavier

    Im happy this is a positive review. I mean Japan is known for being…er, ecentric, but still I absolutely love Miku and her fellow Vocaloids. Don’t knock it ’till you try it ;D

  • Nerijus2000

    Sonn Madonna will get her 3D hologram doing the whole business for her

  • http://ettugamer.com/?p=248 Precipice | et tu, Gamer?

    [...] And believe it or not… it might just come from the most unlikely of places. Love her or hate her, she’s selling out crowds. [...]

  • http://www.weerdworld.com/2010/silly-japan/ Weer'd World » Silly Japan

    [...] this IS kinda cool Everyone gets a little obsessed with famous musicians now and then, but things get [...]

  • http://twitter.com/Head_Jack GM

    Can’t believe folks don’t already know Miku. I sang along on those too.

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    [...] bin mir nicht sicher: Sind diese 3D-Hologramm-Aufnahmen der japanischen Anime-Figur Miku Hatsune noch »Rätselhaftes Asien« oder schon technische [...]

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  • http://joey1058.wordpress.com Joey1058

    “Actually, I don’t think I would have noticed anything after Miku started dressing like a cat-girl. (Watch the 3rd video…Seriously, WTF?)”

    Uh huh, Aaron. Don’t look now, but your human-ness is showing. You might want to pull your tongue back in. You might start to drool like the rest of us fans of Miku. :-)

  • http://geeksroom.com/2010/11/el-holograma-de-miku-hatsune-hace-vibrar-a-los-espectadores-de-un-concierto/40438 El holograma de Miku Hatsune hace vibrar a los espectadores | GeeksRoom

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    [...] de ser impresionante verlo en vivo ¿No creen? Si quieren ver mas videos den clic aquí. Da clic aquí para desplegar los anuncios en una nueva ventana. [...]

  • Everfalling

    I honestly don’t see much difference between this and 3D projection concerts of Gorillaz (and i’d actually consider Madonna prancing around Murdoc at the Grammy Awards a lot stranger than some of this http://vimeo.com/7047817). Both involve a band comprised of fictional characters. The only main difference that I can see is that the vocals for Gorillaz are from live performers whereas vocaloid is a synthesized collection of samples from a real singer. I suppose because it’s an anime character and not a stylized cartoon character and because it’s japanese in general it’s much weirder *shrug*

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  • http://www.youtube.com/user/SeyrenLK SeyrenLK

    yo, SeyrenLK here (the uploader) was wondering where all the views came from in just 1 day and i look on demoraphics owww som1 embed it here (i hope facebook have that feature too i don’t even know how much views i got in fbook), i bought the blu-ray for $81 (US dollars) as pre-order now it worth $119, 119!! that my whole day income after tax D=, but even though the blu-ray still hit the 3rd best selling product in amazon, that proves her pure awesomeness, thank you Aaron Saenz for posting it here and helping me show her awesomeness to the world,

    for those haters feel free to rage on me, send me as much message as u want, it’s so easy to click select all box then delete like deleting your spam folder in yahoo mail, it’s not like i have to read it…and it’s not like you can do anything about it either @_@

  • Aidile

    Gorillaz are an actual band that just stands behind an avatar I guess you could say.

    This is, as the article states, a 3d hologram and a voice synthesizer. I could understand if it was a real person singing the lyrics, but its just words typed into a program. Nothing is real.

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  • http://www.hive45.com HIVE45

    We talked about this a few weeks back and how it will affect the music entertainment industry: http://hive45.com/shows/episode-36-music-entertainment-futures … let us know your thoughts :)

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  • http://twitter.com/Yorkoholic Yorko

    INSANE!!!!!!!!
    Estoy con la boca abierta…

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  • Aliciaz:P

    I WANT A HOLOGRAPHIC ANIME CONCERT IN MY BEDROOM!!!

  • http://umaxsoft.com/blog/ Umax

    Cool, amazing, awesome!!!

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  • Random

    How can people be more trouble by Vocaloid, when they don’t even raise an eyebrow at the success of autotuned pop-star like Sean Kingston.
    Is a performance less virtual, if the “performer” is a real person, despite the fact that what we hear is not how it is sung before a piece of software makes it sound musical?

  • Jonjon_uk

    Holy F C U K and Backwards….

    What to think…..am i weird if i kinda like it.

  • pereubu77

    Does anyone know how much tickets for the concert are?

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    @pereubu77 $42 US dollars if converted

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  • Doodlebugpresents

    tis as expected from jap ‘pop’ culture.
    no need to fear.

  • DJClicheDarkness
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