Pico, Wave and Calvin Harris partner up for VR concert - Stuff

Concert goers volition soon beryllium capable to get their rave connected from the comfortableness of their surviving rooms. Virtual acquisition creator Wave is gearing up to motorboat a bid of 3D stadium shows connected VR hardware shaper Pico’s scope of headsets, kicking disconnected connected the 13th of January with an exclusive show by creation DJ Calvin Harris.

The Calvin Harris Experience will beryllium a metaverse enactment that covers the multi-platinum selling producer’s backmost catalogue, with immersive visuals inspired by quality and the antheral himself performing unrecorded arsenic a virtual avatar. Fans with a Pico VR headset, including the astir precocious launched Pico 4, volition beryllium capable to articulation successful virtually with their ain avatars utilizing the Pico Video app, disposable done the Pico store. Although conscionable similar a existent concert, abstraction volition beryllium limited, truthful Wave is encouraging radical to RSVP up of the kick-off.

European and Asian headset owners volition beryllium capable to get successful connected the enactment – fundamentally everyplace Pico officially sells its hardware – and volition person exclusive entree to the planetary premiere, arsenic good arsenic an extended rebroadcast mentation of the concert. The full amusement volition besides beryllium rebroadcast unrecorded connected Tiktok Live, for anyone that wants to creation but lacks the applicable VR hardware.

Wave antecedently produced The Weeknd Experience successful 2020, which was besides broadcast connected TikTok Live. The interactive quality of each performance blends real-time question seizure and gaming graphics, with fans capable to impact the visuals mid-song. Other big-name artists to usage the tech person included John Legend, Dillon Francis, Pentakill, Alison Wonderland and Imogen Heap.

The Calvin Harris Experience goes unrecorded connected the 13th of January astatine 8PM GMT.

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