Elvis Presley (1935-1977), American rock ‘n’ roll legend.
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A stay show featuring a lifesize digitally recreated avatar of Elvis Presley is about to debut in London later this 12 months, earlier than shifting to Las Vegas, Tokyo and Berlin.
U.Okay. agency Layered Reality mentioned attendees will go on a “journey” by the artist’s life, culminating in a “live performance expertise.” It will 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 show gained the rights to the undertaking and can make the most of 1000’s of Presley’s private pictures and video footage, in accordance to the BBC.
It comes after the 4 members of Swedish supergroup ABBA lately employed augmented actuality and real-time visible results to debut a successful concert expertise which continues to be operating in London.
Created by the London department of Industrial Light & Magic, the visible results firm based by George Lucas, digital lifesize avatars of the band carry out songs accompanied by a stay band and an enormous lighting show in a 3,000-seat enviornment.
ABBA Voyage producer Svana Gisla instructed a U.Okay. authorities committee session in Nov. 2022: “We have stay musicians, so we preserve our band and do seven reveals over 5 days every week. But you would roll around the clock. Vegas will shortly undertake this type of leisure and do Elvis or the Beatles.”
She additionally famous the progress of the know-how raised questions over recreating artists after their dying.
“Posthumously you possibly can put artists again on stage, ethically chances are you’ll or could not have a view on that,” she mentioned. “Having ABBA partake in that is I can say that is an ABBA live performance. ABBA made the selections, selected what to put on, selected their set checklist, ABBA made this show.”