Can’t go see your favorite artist live? Have them come to you.
Beaming a rock star into your living …
Can’t go see your favorite artist live? Have them come to you. Beaming a rock star into your living room might sound like something out of “Star Trek” but, thanks to a cutting-edge new service, celebrity holograms could one day replace concerts as the way we experience “live” music under COVID-19 restrictions. “It’s like nothing has ever existed like that before,” Dave Nussbaum, founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based PORTL, told The Post of his company’s technology, which allows people to summon real-time holograms of performers virtually anywhere. Nussbaum,46, said that’s accomplished with an immersive machine called a HOLOPORTL, a telephone booth-sized apparatus that can fit in the corner of a room and projects a life-size image of an artist while they perform elsewhere in front of a camera. “An artist can beam from wherever they are to wherever they need to be in real time,” the PORTL boss explained. “So one person, one artist, any rock star can perform in their home studio and beam that performance live into hundreds of locations at the exact same time with the ability to hear, see and interact with their global audience.
