KISS legend Gene Simmons just lately spoke extremely of the upcoming KISS avatar present and referred to as it a “jaw-dropping, never-before-seen factor”.
The know-how getting used for the KISS avatars, initially developed for ABBA’s “Voyage” present in London, will enable KISS to remain “on the highway” in retirement. The KISS avatars have been created by Industrial Mild & Magic (ILM) and have been financed and produced by the Swedish firm Pophouse Leisure, which is behind “ABBA Voyage”.
Utilizing the brand new age know-how, Pophouse Leisure Group, which was based by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, will create digital variations of KISS. The undertaking was previewed on the remaining KISS live performance in New York in December final yr.
Throughout an look on “The Adam Carolla Present”, Simmons talked about his imaginative and prescient for the KISS avatar present and stated:
“This factor that we’re doing with Pophouse is a jaw-dropping, never-before-seen factor. And I can’t get too particular besides to let you realize the next, ’trigger it’s on the market. We flew as much as George Lucas’s ILM and we did movement seize, simply to guarantee that it feels and strikes like us, ’trigger it’s us. The expertise is gonna be past something you possibly can think about. As a result of think about a caveman goes to IMAX and beholds, experiences a 3D occasion. They only wouldn’t perceive. So, the one method I can describe what’s gonna occur within the subsequent two years or so… Most of us know what digital glasses are. And swiftly, the room and the world you’re in disappears. And when you look down, the ground that you simply’re standing on is not the ground. You can be floating in area or on one other planet. So regardless of the place you look, in again of you, ahead, up, down, you’re on this various universe. Now think about that have with sound and warmth and all that sort of stuff with out glasses.
“Should you go to the [Las Vegas] Sphere or when you go to the ABBA present, and hundreds of thousands of parents have gone, you’ll swear to God they’re dwell on stage,” Gene continued.
“However when you look down, you possibly can see your hand and a few particular person subsequent to you. So it’s actuality crossed with you possibly can’t imagine your eyes. The know-how has improved a lot that actuality will disappear. You’re gonna be in an alternate… It’s robust to explain it.”
He was requested if the KISS avatar present might be performed at nearly any venue or if it wants a particular venue. Simmons defined:
“Initially, we’re controlling each sq. foot of those big locations in the identical method that IMAX 3D, they want particular cameras, particular lighting and all that. You possibly can’t take IMAX and go to an out of doors property… It’s not linear. You’re not a display screen. It’s throughout you. So when you choose your head up, your chair disappears. It’s troublesome to explain it as a result of no person has seen this.”
