Twitter alive with talk of dead rapper hologram

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg are rumored to be joined onstage for their Sunday night headliner performance at the Coachella music festival not only by Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Warren G, Kurupt, Dillinger and Wiz Khalifa, but by a lifelike hologram of Tupac Shakur.

You've probably heard that rapper Tupac Shakur's hologram was a hit at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, but you may not know that the company that created the virtual image has been around for more than 20 years.

Tupac Shakur performed at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California last Sunday night.?? ??It was reportedly an impressive set, all the more so since Tupac was slain in 1996.?? Shakur was resurrected as a hologram (or according to Russell Potter writing in the Times a "Pepper's Ghost"), and video of the event shows an ...

Tupach Shakur rocked the Coachella music festival Sunday night, and videos of the late rapper strutting the stage like he never died have become a viral sensation. People are calling it a hologram. But despite being an impressive optical illusion, what's commonly being described as a hologram isn't a hologram at all, explains Ars Technica. ...

The website of a US public television news program said its website had been targeted by hackers who planted a false story about rapper Tupac Shakur.The website of the NewsHour program was briefly shut down, but the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) told visitors that "no personal information or email addresses were compromised in any way during the incident."On Sunday a story appeared on the site saying that Shakur was still alive and hiding out in New Zealand.The rapper was gunned down in 1996 in Las Vegas.

Following the acclaimed "beyond the grave" performance of Tupac Shakur together with and Snoop Dogg at the Coachella Music Festival in April, plans are being??made for concerts featuring Marilyn , Elvis, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors. The company developing the event, Digicon Media, says it is not working with the estate since it ...

Digital Domain, creator of a lifelike Tupac Shakur visual effect seen onstage at the Coachella music festival, has gained 48% since a performance on April 15 showcased the technology