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▲This photo,a screenshot from TVing Youtube, shows the program "Alive" (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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▲This photo, provided by Channel MBN, shows the program "Avatar Singer." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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▲This photo, provided by JTBC, shows the poster of the entertainment program "Hidden Singer." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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SEOUL, August 28 (Yonhap) -- Singer Yoo Jae-ha, who passed away in 1987, will be on stage and sing, playing the piano, and singer Kim Hyun-sik, who passed away in 1990, will compete with junior singers who impersonate him.
Music entertainment programs use AI technology. AR, Metaverse, and many more new technologies have been getting more attention recently.
According to the broadcasting industry on Sunday, JTBC's music entertainment "Alive," with four episodes broadcast their first episode on August 26, at 11 p.m., restores singers who unfortunately left us with AI technology.
Singers who became stars in the sky will be coming to the stage with the Deep Fake technology, restoring their voices, faces, and bodies. The audience will be using Extended Reality technology to watch them perform just like they did when they were alive.
In the first episode, Lim Yoon-taek from Ulala Session, who passed away due to stomach cancer, came up to the stage.
Members of Ulala Session, Kim Myung-hoon, Park Seung-il, Choe Do-won, and singer Lee Seung-chul sang the song "Western Sky" with Lim Yoon-taek and touched the audience's hearts.
Singer Lim Yoon-taek's mother, wife and daughter shed tears as they saw Lim Yoon-taek again, and audiences who saw that felt emotional as well.
On August 27, an undisclosed song "Old Tape" written by Lim Yoon-taek for her daughter was released, and Yoo Jae-ha also returned after 35 years and sang the new song "Your Sculptures."
Channel MBN's music entertainment show, "Avatar Singer," is a show where singers perform with their identity hidden as a virtual avatar. The first episode aired on August 26.
By combining augmented reality (AR) and Metaverse, 10 top musicians in Korea will be reborn as 3D avatars.
The avatars who performed in the first episode were Ran and Rogi, twin sisters who freely handle water and fire, Kim Soon-soo was introduced as an animal lover with the ability to heal living things, Memory that transforms freely between humans and cats, and Ian, who has the ability to control gravity on the stage,
Channel JTBC's "Hidden Singer," a long-lived music program that has already entered its seventh season, will also restore the voice of a singer who has been missed using new technologies.
"Hidden Singer" started its new season on August 19, and they will be extracting the voice of Kim Hyun-sik, who passed away in 1990, in order to make his episode.
Singers will be imitating Kim Hyun-sik on stage, and they will be competing through singing.
The "Virtual Idol Program 30," where K-pop girl groups compete in virtual reality, produced by Kakao Entertainment, will be aired in the second half of this year.
30 girl group members will be competing by dancing and singing as virtual characters in a virtual setting. Only the winners of the program will make a debut as a virtual girl group.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Dowon Kim.)
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