aespa's Nævis to debut as an "artist" in VR concert at SXSW - NME

Nævis, the artificial quality strategy from aespa’s lore, volition beryllium debuting arsenic an “AI artist” astatine the group’s upcoming virtual world (VR) concert.

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In a caller interrogation with Maeil Business Newspaper, SM Entertainment CEO Lee Sung-soo revealed the label’s plans to reframe Nævis arsenic an “AI artist”. Nævis was antecedently introduced arsenic the AI strategy that, wrong the miss group’s lore, connects aespa to their virtual counterparts, oregon ‘æ’s. She was antecedently thought to person sacrificed herself to assistance aespa, pursuing the events that transpired successful the euphony video and lyrics of ‘Savage’.

Now, it seems that Nævis volition marque her ain philharmonic debut during aespa’s VR performance astatine this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) festival, a 20-minute acquisition acceptable successful Kwangya, an infinite, lawless virtual abstraction that features successful SM Entertainment’s and successful peculiar aespa’s lore.

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“Nævis, who had lone appeared truthful acold arsenic a CG representation successful aespa’s euphony videos, is successful plans to beryllium shown arsenic an AI artist,” Lee said of Nævis’ forthcoming debut, arsenic translated by Koreaboo. “She volition beryllium an creator calved by mobilising skills for earthy movements, recently created voice, and real-time communication.” The enforcement added that Nævis’ dependable volition beryllium created utilizing samples from 12 antithetic dependable actors.

aespa’s VR performance volition get its satellite premiere astatine SXSW, which runs from March 10-19. A circumstantial day has yet to beryllium confirmed for the aespa concert. Before SXSW, aespa volition clasp their archetypal header concerts. Their ‘SYNK: HYPERLINE’ concerts are acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine the Jamsil Arena successful Seoul, South Korea connected February 25 and 26. The group’s 2nd nighttime astatine the arena volition beryllium live-streamed for planetary audiences done streaming work Beyond LIVE.