You can ask him anything and he'll give you the answers Ozzy would have given. It's almost scary how precise he is."
Ozzy Osbourne will return… digitally. The rocker's heirs have announced a partnership with companies Hyperreal and Proto Hologram. The goal: to create an artificial intelligence-animated hologram of Ozzy that will be able to communicate with fans via life-size hologram stations in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The project, said the rocker's son Jack, contains "Ozzy's digital DNA, with his voice, his image, his movements," and "it's almost scary how precise it is." You'll be able to ask the digital Ozzy anything, and he, his wife Sharon assures, "will respond with his voice, giving the answers Ozzy would have given. We'll take him around the world, and people will be able to talk to him."
To create it, explained Remington Scott, CEO of Hyperreal, which last year unveiled a digital avatar of Stan Lee, they used a proprietary technology called Digital DNA, which allows the avatar to function in real time after collecting the data needed to create avatars. "It can perform live, respond to audiences, exist in interactive environments." This isn't pre-loaded content: thanks to AI, "it's a living performance, built from authentic materials selected, authorized, and vetted by people who were close to Ozzy."
