Elvis Elvis Aron Presley shoemaker's last played Las Vegas on Dec. 12, 1976, octonary months before his death. At least he did in person. A new production promises to play the Rex backward to his throne as a holograph either belatedly in 2024 or betimes 2025.
“Elvis Evolution” was created inwards partnership betwixt Brits immersive entertainment company Layered Reality and Authentic Brands Group, which owns the rights to Elvis’ image.
The production promises to pose a full-size Elvis hologram created by the assimilation of thousands of Elvis photos and rest home videos past contrived intelligence. The hologram testament “recreate the seismic impact of seeing Elvis unrecorded for a whole young multiplication of fans, blurring the lines between realism and fantasy,” according to a financial statement from Layered Reality.
In 1997, another production attempted to resurrect Elvis past featuring his image on a heavyweight digital projection screen behind members of his ’70s ring as they performed along to his prerecorded voice. “Elvis: The Concert” played the Las Vegas Hilton (formerly the International Hotel and currently the Westgate) inwards August 1998 and the Aladdin (now Planet Hollywood) inward August 2002.
It was the best engineering could perform at the time, but reprieve of disbelief was only really possible when audience members unsympathetic their eyes.
Fans “no yearner need to sit around there and passively find entertainment — they require to follow a component of it,” said Layered Reality founding father and CEO St. Andrew McGuinness, promising “a memory-making have that testament be a bucketful heel point for Elvis fans and admirers around the world.”
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Since “Elvis: The Concert,” forward-moving holographical engineering has allowed murdered strike icon Tupac Shakur to perform breast and snapper at the Coachella Festival in 2012, Ol’ Dirty Bastard to rejoin the Wu-Tang Clan for a circuit inwards 2012 and 2013, and Michael Andrew Jackson to sing and dance at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards.
A production called “An Evening with Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert” played at Harrah’s Las Vegas from 2020 to 2022, and ABBA holograms currently serenade Londoners in a made-to-order capital of the United Kingdom arena.
There was still at one time a primitive Elvis hologram — a 2-dimensional mental image projected alongside Celine Dion as they dueted on “If I Can Dream” for a 2008 “American Idol” episode.
According to Layered Reality, “Elvis Evolution” will debut inward capital of the United Kingdom inwards November before header to Las Vegas. No dates or venues feature been announced for any of the shows.
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