Is virtual reality the future of live music? - BBC News

With Covid-19 restrictions stopping live performances some musicians have turned to virtual reality to create new live experiences.

Artists perform in front of a green screen and concerts are broadcast to an audience wearing VR headsets.

So will this be the future of music?

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[filonin]

What makes it live then if it's not? What's even the point of having a concert? I would never pay to go to a show where the artist didn't even bother coming.

[cleroyster]

NEVER work. why do you think these musicians travel to the venues? Everyone wants to be in the same room with them.

[semyonbudyonny]

How about we destroy all computer technology? Now there’s a thought!

[knidoll]

Life turns to a black mirror episode without a closure

[Rubylove]

What a ridiculous title. If something is virtual, it is not ‘live’ by definition.

[medusa]

Why fear death when you Know you’ll die one day ?

[Ahmed-N]

Instead of this 3:59 video, I have a better solution. The short answer is no.

[marisolalmenara]

Technology will NEVER replace a live concert. We are humans and we need the social interaccion to keep evolving. Man kind can't survive on its own and creativity certainly won't evolve on it's own either, needs to be shared.

[ItIsGonnaGetWayWorse]

How utterly pathetic our species became

[d]

That’s the goal: do everything at home for the environment

[BlogofTheWst]

The answer to the vid’s title is “no.”

[lyvxdos]

Yep we can sit in our houses and plug into a virtual gig, while robots do our jobs, sounds like the perfect gig for the bedwetters that are scared of the outside world. Ffs we are lost

[dotexegames]

Just watched a band today and everyone had a great time ZERO Covid talk and NO MASKS

[amierising]

Thank goodness this idea will never take off, because it gives me chills. While we're at it maybe we can just stay at home forever and have virtual relationships, breath virtual air and eat virtual food. I mean, who needs real life anyway right, technology is so good these days we don't need to actually do any real human things anymore.

[PaulTheadra]

Where has everyone been? I've been doing VR music events for years now.

[DaRkLoRd-rcyu]

i mean is there a place for VR music experiences? of course. will it replace live music? HELL NO

[BJPZINDABAD]

Face to face with live audience feels better than remaining isolated in gadget world.
VR is amazing and immersive with universal magnitude of sound and photography which makes mind teleport in a different illusive atmosphere.
Technology is moving at faster pace .but everything digital has an analogue platform.

[paulmeredith]

Virtual reality has been the future for everything over the last 20 years. I somehow doubt it's the future of music.

[DonnieHomemadeVisuals]

pov : it's better to be in a crowd in an alfresco concert.

[allaroundme]

Virtual insanity.
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