She sings, she dances, she speaks an infinite number of languages, and she doesn't exist. Say hello to Kyoko Date, the first computer-generated pop star. Kyoko is the offspring of HoriPro, a Japanese talent agency. Kyoko's form has been obsessively pieced together from 40,000 polygons. Her face alone took 10 people to finish. It's easy to mistake many of her computer-generated "publicity shots" for photos of a real 16-year-old. In Japan, Kyoko has already released a series of successful singles and will be giving video concerts and appearing in commercials in the future. HoriPro hopes that with her software-driven face and movements, Kyoko will be a ripe export commodity, as she can sing (well, lip-synch) in any language and can be tweaked in both style and substance for each market.
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