The most challenging part, Pam says, was the voice. <\/p>\n
Bill was a quiet, reserved man, and there were few recent recordings of him. Older audio sounded stronger; later recordings reflected his poorer health. <\/p>\n
Engineers worked to find a balance, something family members would recognise, even if it wasn’t perfect.<\/p>\n
At the memorial service, around 200 people gathered. Most had no idea what was coming. <\/p>\n
When Bill’s hologram appeared, life-size and from the waist up, on a screen and speaking directly to the room, the reaction was immediate.<\/p>\n
“Now, before anyone gets confused, I’m not actually here in Valhalla today,” explained the hologram of Bill. “Is this going to be fun?”<\/p>\n
“People were aghast,” Pam said. “Some genuinely couldn’t understand how it was happening.”<\/p>\n
The hologram did not just deliver a prepared speech. It also took part in a staged Q&A, with Bill’s nephew acting as host. <\/p>\n
The hologram even joked how marrying Pam despite his nerves had been the “best decision I ever didn’t make”.<\/p>\n
Several attendees believed the exchange was happening live.<\/p>\n
One of Pam’s sons noticed only one small detail. “His voice is just a little bit off,” he said. For Pam, that reaction confirmed how close they had come to getting the likeness perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most challenging part, Pam says, was the voice. Bill was a quiet, reserved man, and there were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-551697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}