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posted by takyon on Monday November 06 2017, @03:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the have-some-fun-with-me dept.

Diehard fans turn virtual teen singer into Japanese mega-star

She wears extremely short skirts, sports blue pigtails to her knees and has the boundless energy of a playful puppy. During her 10-year career, she's released more than 100,000 songs in a variety of languages and opened shows for Lady Gaga. And yet Hatsune Miku, who boasts 2.5 million Facebook followers, doesn't actually exist — at least not in the typical way we think of a flesh-and-blood diva. Miku is a computer-simulated pop star created more than a decade ago by Hiroyuki Ito, CEO of Crypton Future Media in Sapporo, Japan.

A virtual music star, driven by fans and voice-synthesis software. Here's a sample video, if you're curious. I can't judge the voice, since I don't speak japanese, but the animation is remarkably good.

takyon: Wikipedia for Hatsune Miku and Vocaloid. Have some fun with Miku! meme (YTP version. Warning: Gets LOUD).

News? Maybe not. However, you're on the right track:

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @12:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @12:48PM (#593010)
    Idoru is by none other than William Gibson himself, who is best known for Neuromancer, which is widely considered the first cyberpunk novel, though Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and John Brunner's Shockwave Rider are arguably proto-cyberpunk.
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