On May 5, an announcement came from Executive Chairman of Pulse Evolution Corporation at the Canadian Music Week that the company is working on a new virtual Michael Jackson which is looking much more realistic than their version from the 2014 Billboard Music Awards!
Canadian Music Week welcomed keynote speaker John Textor, Executive Chairman of Pulse Evolution Corporation (PLFX), pioneer and leading developer of hyper-realistic digital humans for holographic live performances, virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence, as part of this year’s Digital Media Summit on Thursday, May 5. Widely credited as the pioneer of the new industry of Holographic Entertainment, he is responsible for the 2012 appearance of Virtual Tupac Shakur at the Coachella Valley Music Festival and the 2014 performance of Virtual Michael Jackson at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, the latter generating more than 35 million YouTube views and 98 billion Internet impressions worldwide. In 2015, PLFX’s new hologram music industry secured ‘pop culture status’ as Textor and his partner Frank Patterson were parodied in the ‘Hologram episodes’ of the globally successful animated sitcom, South Park.
The 30 minutes talk happened at the Digital Media Summit in Toronto, Ontario, at 2:30 p.m. on May 5, 2016.The Digital Media Summit is Canada’s premier social media and interactive marketing conference. It is presented in conjunction with Canadian Music Week in Toronto and features thought leaders in the digital and social media space. Textor featured in a keynote interview entitled “Master of Surreality.” The interviewer was Ted Cohen, managing partner of TAG Strategic and a former Sony Music executive.
In March, 2016, Pulse Evolution announced a landmark partnership with Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment. Pulse and Fuller — the British impresario who created the American Idol franchise and has worked with the Spice Girls, Amy Winehouse, Annie Lennox, and David and Victoria Beckham — aim to combine the highest quality visual imagery, including hyper-realistic digital humans, with the most advanced and rapidly evolving display technologies to create immersive content for stage, virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence.
Earlier this year, Pulse Evolution received investments from China’s Original Force Computer Animation Co. Ltd. and Shanghai U9 Game Co. Ltd., both of which are portfolio investments of Tencent Holding Limited, a $200 billion global conglomerate.
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I know one thing that mess better look like Michael Jacksonand I mean exactly like him or you just drop the ball again
They mean to say mj impersonator 😠
I’m still waiting
Saint Michael Jackson, would be tickled at the idea, but would hate that someone from SONY can continue to “USE and ABUSE” Michaels image, voice, etc. MJ would want to control it himself, PERIOD. And the Holigram will not be visiting sick children, nor giving $350 million to Childrens Chariites. for sure.
Very well said!
Very true.
Well said..
I agree with Mr. Wagener, and in addition, I feel that he would want us to stay away from this kind of stuff. As well as the Prince hologram!
I miss my hero. Let MJ rest in peace.
And so it begins. Before you know it this hologram will make hunderd of milions of dollars by touring the world.. It feels just not right. I miss MJ very much because he was such an important part of my life just like everyone else here. And i hope his legacy will be celebrated for many years to come. But, not like this. He would never aprove this
Woumd you attend such a tour?
I only support Michael not any impersonators never will that happen. If his family will benefit from it that’s different not Sony. Simple put i have not purchased anything relating to MJ since he passed away and thats the way iy goes
Exactly how I feel too x
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