Gorillaz demo Google’s latest AR technology in a virtual concert - MIXED Reality News

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The virtual British euphony radical Gorillaz is playing AR concerts successful London and New York this weekend. Google’s Geospatial API anchors the integer set successful the existent world.

The Gorillaz person ever seen themselves arsenic pioneers successful the euphony industry. For example, the virtual set attracted attraction backmost successful 2005 with its archetypal unrecorded show utilizing 3D holograms. At that time, the virtual musicians were projected onto the signifier utilizing “Musion Eyeliner” signifier exertion and besides performed astatine the 2006 Emmy Awards arsenic holograms.

Following the motorboat of Google’s ARCore Geospatial API, the set is present making a peculiar quality with augmented reality to execute their caller azygous “Skinny Ape” successful New York’s Times Square.

AR app brings Gorillaz to New York and London

The show tin beryllium followed successful the “Gorillaz Presents” app for iOS oregon Android. The integer characters and effects of the performance volition beryllium integrated into the existent metropolis backdrop.

An AR show volition travel astatine London’s Picadilly Circus connected Sunday, December 18, 2022. It starts astatine 2 p.m. section time. You tin besides ticker this amusement again successful the app aft the unrecorded performance.

Gorillaz was created arsenic a sarcastic commentary connected the interchangeability of the euphony scenery astatine the crook of the millennium. Blur vocalist Damon Alban and comic creator Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl) enactment unneurotic a virtual set whose characters served arsenic galore instrumentalist clichés arsenic possible.

Thanks to antithetic characters similar the punk “2D” oregon the alt-rocker Murdoc, the set could power betwixt genres astatine will. This made lineups with changing musicians possible. Back successful 2017, the Gorillaz released a 360-degree euphony video for the azygous “Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)”.

All info and downloads for the Gorillaz AR performance tin beryllium recovered here.

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