Jon Bon Jovi may not be able to pose for a selfie with every fan packing Madison Square Garden this month, but technology has come up with\u00a0a cheat.<\/p>\n
Fans attending the rock icon’s nine-show Forever Tour residency at the Garden can now step into the first-ever concert venue hologram selfie experience, courtesy of Superfan.Live, Proto Hologram and HIFI Labs. The immersive activation lets concertgoers “meet” a hyperrealistic, life-size hologram of Jon Bon Jovi (or even the whole band) and snap a digital selfie to download and keep.<\/p>\n
According to the companies behind the experience, it’s the first time Proto’s Selfie technology has been used at a live concert venue and the first time the hologram platform has appeared inside Madison Square Garden. Rather than simply standing next to a\u00a0cardboard cutout, fans interact with a lifelike holographic version of Bon Jovi designed to recreate the feeling of meeting the singer in person before posing for a photo.<\/p>\n
While holograms have become increasingly common in everything from museums to airports, they’ve also started creeping into the live entertainment world. Bon Jovi himself has previously appeared as a Proto hologram during his 2024 MusicCares Person of the Year tribute concert and at his Nashville restaurant, JBJ’s, but this marks the technology’s biggest concert rollout yet.<\/p>\n
“We’re honored to work with SUPER on this first-of-its-kind experience at such a triumphant moment in Jon Bon Jovi’s career,” Proto founder David Nussbaum said in a statement. “The superfans attending won’t just get a digital souvenir\u2014they’ll experience Jon’s presence and that sense of fun when you take a selfie with a hero.”<\/p>\n
The activation comes from Superfan.Live, a company specializing in premium fan experiences for major touring artists, alongside creative technology company HIFI Labs, which develops interactive projects designed to deepen connections between musicians and their audiences.<\/p>\n
If you’re headed to one of Bon Jovi’s Madison Square Garden shows, expect more than a night of singalongs to “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “It’s My Life.” You can also walk away with a selfie that looks as though you shared a moment with the New Jersey rock legend himself\u2014even if it’s his holographic double doing the smiling.<\/p>\n
Bon Jovi\u00a0brings the Forever Tour to Madison Square Garden for nine performances\u00a0July 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23 and 26. For more information, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi may not be able to pose for a selfie with every fan packing Madison Square…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[148903,93,61,60,278,148904],"class_list":["post-541129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-categories-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-news-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}