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Friday, March 29, 2024
Chinese virtuoso plays 'haptic' holographic piano concert
www.avinteractive.com/news: World-renowned Chinese pianist, Lang Lang, has taken part in a holographic concert, celebrating the centenary of Spanish phone company Telefonica, and the opening of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
6 comments:
Karter LaBarre
said...
Wish I was there! This looks so pretty and I genuinely do wish I was there, this is because I have a long connection to piano music. What I mean by that is I used to play piano when I was younger and I really like it. I wish I kept it up and now seeing people play piano it makes me sit there in awe. The combination of lighting and music is just so gorgeous. I don't know why more people aren't doing this. It is so cool seeing the lights move around in the audience, and the ones moving on stage. This is such a good combination of tech into a typically solo instrument. I know that there are many concerts that have Tech integrated within them, but not many like this. very excited for the future as we move forward in our industry, and seeing how that combines with other performances
This is such a cool and impressive performance from all areas - lighting, sound, media, music, and more. I love concerts and really any performances that make the technology behind them one of the main focuses of the show. This is a performance I would love to experience - I think for something like this the music itself is obviously very impressive, but there is likely an experience to be had being inside the world of the concert. Unrelated to that, I enjoyed reading this article which was very technically focused. I don't do as much of that as I should, but reading technical articles and learning how others work and their choices is a great way to learn yourself and find new things to try out. Many people are focused on their own methods, but reaching out to outside sources and compiling ideas into something new is often the best form of technical (or really any) innovation.
This looks absolutely wild on video. The article didn't give a super good explanation of what was actually happening to accomplish this effect, and instead spouted some mumbo jumbo about 5g from some mobile provider that sponsored this design. I do however think that real, in camera, video effects will be the future of cinema. Examples like the recent star wars shows, where there are actually real lights being casted onto actors is unreal from a cinema perspective. I think that a similar effect of camera tracking was used here to place the piano back into 3d space. The video makes it a bit more clear as to what's actually going on, but I wish the article spent more time discussing exactly how this effect was accomplished. I came away from this with more questions than I entered it with. I think holograms, or volumetric displays, can be incredibly useful in theatre, and I would love to see something like that in a blackbox space.
This is extremely impressive; I haven't seen something quite like this in a long time. The concept itself is really quite imaginative then on top of that the technical feat that it took to first of all have so many cameras in the space and dude reduce latency to a point that it was all under 100 milliseconds is insanely impressive. I also find it very funny that it's to celebrate a telephone company. Because of course something really impressive is to celebrate some big telephone company, I could easily see T-Mobile or something doing the same kind of thing in an ad just going way all out. It reminds me of how Super Bowl commercials used to be before they all started getting kind of boring. But this is the kind of thing that I would like to see in Super Bowl commercials this all out impressive technical feats that make for some stellar videos and I would really like to see companies that have money pushing this kind of thing forward
This is really impressive looking. I can’t imagine what the performance would’ve looked like in person. I can’t honestly say I fully understand how the system works even after reading the article a few times; I just don’t have that much background knowledge in video and networking. The hologram of Lang Lang looked so good, for a second I couldn’t tell which one was real and which one was digital. The hologram piano looked absolutely beautiful. I can’t imagine the time and effort that had to go into making the effect perfect – I’ve seen how tricky ordinary projection or video setups can be, so I can’t imagine how complicated it is to set up and tune a system like this one. Aside from the holograms, the video graphics that were in the video looked really good. I can’t tell if it was a screen or projection, but it was really impressive. I’d love to see something like this built to be full-scale or integrated into an immersive environment, for example.
Lang Lang's concert was this mind-blowing mix of art, tech, and just pure wow-factor that seriously showed off the crazy stuff we can do when we mash up the real world with digital magic. It felt like stepping into a sci-fi movie where tech makes you question what's real and what's not. This wasn't just about pushing buttons or swiping screens. It was a whole new take on jamming out on the piano. Normally, you'd picture piano gigs as these super formal things in big, echoey halls. But here, they flipped the script with tech wizardry to make classical vibes meet futuristic cool. As someone in their twenties who doesn't usually hit up music shows, the thought of a famous pianist dueling it out with his hologram double on a piano that's not even there is kind of mind-blowing. The music isn't just something you listen to; it's like stepping into another dimension. A few years back, this would've sounded like pure fantasy, but here we are. It's like a sneak peek into what concerts could be like down the road, where there's no limit to where or how artists can share their vibes, breaking free from all the physical stuff that used to tie down live performances. It's a whole new world for experiencing music, and I'm all about seeing where this goes.
6 comments:
Wish I was there! This looks so pretty and I genuinely do wish I was there, this is because I have a long connection to piano music. What I mean by that is I used to play piano when I was younger and I really like it. I wish I kept it up and now seeing people play piano it makes me sit there in awe. The combination of lighting and music is just so gorgeous. I don't know why more people aren't doing this. It is so cool seeing the lights move around in the audience, and the ones moving on stage. This is such a good combination of tech into a typically solo instrument. I know that there are many concerts that have Tech integrated within them, but not many like this. very excited for the future as we move forward in our industry, and seeing how that combines with other performances
This is such a cool and impressive performance from all areas - lighting, sound, media, music, and more. I love concerts and really any performances that make the technology behind them one of the main focuses of the show. This is a performance I would love to experience - I think for something like this the music itself is obviously very impressive, but there is likely an experience to be had being inside the world of the concert. Unrelated to that, I enjoyed reading this article which was very technically focused. I don't do as much of that as I should, but reading technical articles and learning how others work and their choices is a great way to learn yourself and find new things to try out. Many people are focused on their own methods, but reaching out to outside sources and compiling ideas into something new is often the best form of technical (or really any) innovation.
This looks absolutely wild on video. The article didn't give a super good explanation of what was actually happening to accomplish this effect, and instead spouted some mumbo jumbo about 5g from some mobile provider that sponsored this design. I do however think that real, in camera, video effects will be the future of cinema. Examples like the recent star wars shows, where there are actually real lights being casted onto actors is unreal from a cinema perspective. I think that a similar effect of camera tracking was used here to place the piano back into 3d space. The video makes it a bit more clear as to what's actually going on, but I wish the article spent more time discussing exactly how this effect was accomplished. I came away from this with more questions than I entered it with. I think holograms, or volumetric displays, can be incredibly useful in theatre, and I would love to see something like that in a blackbox space.
This is extremely impressive; I haven't seen something quite like this in a long time. The concept itself is really quite imaginative then on top of that the technical feat that it took to first of all have so many cameras in the space and dude reduce latency to a point that it was all under 100 milliseconds is insanely impressive. I also find it very funny that it's to celebrate a telephone company. Because of course something really impressive is to celebrate some big telephone company, I could easily see T-Mobile or something doing the same kind of thing in an ad just going way all out. It reminds me of how Super Bowl commercials used to be before they all started getting kind of boring. But this is the kind of thing that I would like to see in Super Bowl commercials this all out impressive technical feats that make for some stellar videos and I would really like to see companies that have money pushing this kind of thing forward
This is really impressive looking. I can’t imagine what the performance would’ve looked like in person. I can’t honestly say I fully understand how the system works even after reading the article a few times; I just don’t have that much background knowledge in video and networking. The hologram of Lang Lang looked so good, for a second I couldn’t tell which one was real and which one was digital. The hologram piano looked absolutely beautiful. I can’t imagine the time and effort that had to go into making the effect perfect – I’ve seen how tricky ordinary projection or video setups can be, so I can’t imagine how complicated it is to set up and tune a system like this one. Aside from the holograms, the video graphics that were in the video looked really good. I can’t tell if it was a screen or projection, but it was really impressive. I’d love to see something like this built to be full-scale or integrated into an immersive environment, for example.
Lang Lang's concert was this mind-blowing mix of art, tech, and just pure wow-factor that seriously showed off the crazy stuff we can do when we mash up the real world with digital magic. It felt like stepping into a sci-fi movie where tech makes you question what's real and what's not. This wasn't just about pushing buttons or swiping screens. It was a whole new take on jamming out on the piano. Normally, you'd picture piano gigs as these super formal things in big, echoey halls. But here, they flipped the script with tech wizardry to make classical vibes meet futuristic cool. As someone in their twenties who doesn't usually hit up music shows, the thought of a famous pianist dueling it out with his hologram double on a piano that's not even there is kind of mind-blowing. The music isn't just something you listen to; it's like stepping into another dimension. A few years back, this would've sounded like pure fantasy, but here we are. It's like a sneak peek into what concerts could be like down the road, where there's no limit to where or how artists can share their vibes, breaking free from all the physical stuff that used to tie down live performances. It's a whole new world for experiencing music, and I'm all about seeing where this goes.
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