Meta is internet hosting a posthumous Infamous B.I.G. live performance. Sure, you learn that accurately.
Meta is celebrating what can be Biggie’s fiftieth birthday with a digital actuality live performance the place Biggie’s “hyper-realistic” avatar will carry out Biggie classics. The occasion is a partnership between Willingie, Gunpowder & Sky, and The Infamous B.I.G. Property and can happen on Dec. 16 in Horizon Worlds.
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Previous to the live performance, there will probably be a digital recreation of a day in Biggie’s life in Brooklyn. It’s going to function narration from American author and music journalist Touré. The live performance may also function performances from Sean “Diddy” Combs, The Lox, Latto, Nardo Wick, and Lil’ Stop.
This isn’t the primary time expertise has enabled followers to expertise their favourite artists after their demise. Notably, a hologram of the late Elvis Presley sang with Celine Dion on American Idol and a hologram of Tupac carried out with Snoop Dogg at Coachella in 2012. As digital actuality expertise advances, so does the chance for occasions like Biggie’s live performance that will be unimaginable in the actual world.
The live performance additionally comes at a time when metaverse concert events are gaining mainstream consideration. This 12 months MTV launched the “Greatest Metaverse Efficiency” class which BLACKPINK received for his or her “fairly savage” live performance in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUGB) Cellular.
