7 Computer Animations that Cross Over into Real Life

Tupac’s surprise hologram appearance at the Coachella festival 2012 flabbergasted millions, but it was far from the first time a 3-D singer performed in front of a live audience. Hatsune Miku, the singing, blue-haired synthesizer app, has drawn huge Japanese crowds since her first stage performance in 2009. “She” has become so popular that three aluminum plates with her image were attached to the Venus spacecraft explorer Akatsuki. In the summer of 2013, the virtual popstar teamed up with fashion maker Louis Vuitton for a specially created opera called The End, presumably the first opera ever to feature neither human singers nor orchestra.