Elvis Presley, American rock ‘n’ roll legend.
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A stay present that includes a life-size digitally recreated avatar of Elvis Presley is about to debut in London later this yr, earlier than shifting to Las Vegas, Tokyo and Berlin.
U.Okay. agency Layered Actuality stated attendees will go on a “journey” by means of the artist’s life, culminating in a “live performance expertise.” It is going to use a mixture of synthetic intelligence and augmented actuality, which blends computer-generated imagery with the true world, in addition to “theatre, projection and multi-sensory results.”
The present gained the rights to the mission and can make the most of hundreds of Presley’s private images and video footage, in response to BBC.
It comes after the 4 members of Swedish supergroup ABBA just lately employed augmented actuality and real-time visible results to debut a profitable live performance expertise that’s nonetheless working in London.
Created by the London department of Industrial Gentle & Magic, the visible results firm based by George Lucas, digital life-size avatars of the band carry out songs accompanied by a stay band and an enormous lighting show in a 3,000-seat area.
ABBA Voyage producer Svana Gisla informed a U.Okay. authorities committee session in November 2022: “We’ve got stay musicians, so we maintain our band and do seven exhibits over 5 days per week. However you may roll around the clock. Vegas will rapidly undertake this fashion of leisure and do Elvis or the Beatles.”
She additionally famous the progress of the expertise raised questions over recreating artists after their loss of life.
“Posthumously you’ll be able to put artists again on stage, ethically chances are you’ll or might not have a view on that,” she stated. “Having ABBA partake on this, I can say that is an ABBA live performance. ABBA made the choices, selected what to put on, selected their set record — ABBA made this present.”
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