Ever since their debut in 2006, their hit song Heavenly Star has stucked in my head from time to time whenever I played Lumines on my PSP. When will Lumi, the famed fictional hologramed Japanese singer, with her beautiful, but sampled and digitized voice, release her next album? Avatar has made 3D movies a growing fad, expanding the boundary of virtual reality in entertainment. And VR is certainly becoming a word pertaining not just to Internent, and computer games. So I thought about Lumi from Genki Rockets again. Unlike Simone, Hollywood’s rendition of a virtual being coming to life, Lumi is arguably already alive. Her album has been a big hit in Japan and amongst anime fans, and her hologram appearances a signature performance. Hundreds of Japanese paid big money to see her “live on stage” in Tokyo in 2008 (see below). No one really knows who Lumi is, because she isn’t actually real. The origin of her voice remains unknown. She exists in the real world only as a recognized, but non-existent being. So the question is, when will Lumi finally visit Earth again with her new album?