Behold: Baby Metal Avatar Cosplay Tribute Group Performing in Second Life

Today is Tuesday: Time to rock your face off with Baby Metal cosplay (from the SL-based group's 1 year anniversary live show last week). The rapid-fire choreography is even more impressive when you realize how this coordination between several avatars separated by thousands of miles is made possible:

They all [sync] together online from various parts of the world for the live show, which streams in the original band's music, which takes an incredible amount of coordination... "There is always a delay from streaming source to the players of the listeners," Grey says, "which depends on encoder settings, number of stream relays, behavior of the media player, etc. It could be several seconds up to a minute or more. To make sure we all hear the music at the same time as the audience, we use a streaming service without relay servers, and we all listen to the stream -- not to the source. Each of us knows which instruments they play and how it sounds. Music starts playing, we start our corresponding animations. If needed, communication between us happens in the background in instant messages or voice chat. There is still some delay between us that depends on distance and network infrastructure and what not, but in most cases it is small enough to be ignored, or at least it does not disturb too much to destroy the impression of a synced choreography. Residents of Second Life are used to a bit of lag."

More face rocking here.

Comments

[irihapeti]

likes that people do this. It's pretty cool. Same when two or more artists sing and play at concerts together in SL from different remote locations.

Things on any online live collab can go wonky, but as was said, we in SL are veterans when it comes to lag and internet wonkies

So good on them for doing this :)

[Joshuua barenhaut ( Kami Hideki)]

I am the stage builder Lighting Tech and Drummer Hideki for PBM. We are all huge fans of the band and the technical side of this production is unreal. Grey spends hours doing the animations sequences for the girls. It truly is one of the best live tribute bands in SL. The kamis are all in the states, as is one of the girls, the other two are european based hence why our limited times we can do shows. COME SEE THE SHOWS!! you wont be disappointed!