Until Tupac Shakur appeared last weekend at Coachella, it would have been hard to think of a hologram as anything but crazy nerdy. Remember "X-Men" villain Genesis, whose mutant power was the ability to project other people's memories in the form of holograms? I didn't think so. One need not go for such a deep cut: we've got Princess "You're My Only Hope" Leia, shimmering "Harry Potter" characters inside Universal Studios' Wizarding World, and too many holodeck-focused "Star Trek" episodes to count.

But now, for better or for worse (and until Biggie Smalls or "Star Trek 2" deliver a more kickass rendering of a 3-D image), Tupac's computer-generated doppelganger reigns as the coolest hologram in pop culture. That's why Hologram Tupac is Splash Page's Hero of the Week.

Though news of Holo-pac's Coachella resurrection leaked days before he appeared at the music festival, no one actually thought it was going to be so damn awesome. And without a doubt, there were legions of stoned concertgoers who thought they'd taken some bad acid when the MC materialized on stage saying, "What up, Coachella?" a full 15 years after he was gunned down in Las Vegas. Whether you knew it was coming or not, the stunt was nothing short of miraculous. It looked just real enough to be, well, real. The swagger was there. The voice was there. Tupac was there.

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