This Is What It's Like To Watch A Holographic Musician

Janelle Monae appeared on stage as a beam of light, performing with the real-life M.I.A. in New York. Are holographic performers the future?

It's not that easy to completely surprise concertgoers with a hologram anymore. Tupac's holographic performance back in 2012--that was out of nowhere. Last night I saw an otherworldly image of Janelle Monae beam down, Star Trek-style, to perform on stage beside the real-life M.I.A.--and all of us in the audience knew exactly where holographic Monae came from: a 25-by-13-foot pane of what looked like glass sloped across the stage. At one point, M.I.A. joked that it was like performing behind a condom.

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