Do you remember the first time you heard about VR, whether it was VR games, VR fitness, VR videos... The entire industry is trying and groping, trying to find a point that can best reap the hearts of users.
Today, when users pick up VR again, they will find that the video content available for use, the breadth of applications, and the depth of content are not the same as they were back then.
Since 1990, it has been sought after by the market and capital to now, and the entire market has also experienced a big wave, but it has indeed continued to 'dig out' new applications and new gameplay of VR.
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For example, a VR virtual concert recently cooperated by Li Min and PICO has made VR a storm in the music industry. "Millennium Realm" is a breakthrough VR virtual concert, which is helmed by PICO, a big name in the VR circle, realizing a feast where idols and VR technology 'strong files' collide.
As a national idol with high national popularity, many representative works, rich music genres and rich imagination, Li Min became the best choice to interpret the first 6 DoF VR concert in China.
The blessing of concert stars undoubtedly makes VR concerts a 'fragrant food'. It is precisely because of Li Min's strong appeal that the entire VR concert can give full play to its technical advantages, carry out diversified interactive links, and let fans and idols have a wonderful distance collision.
6DoF - Let the audience "step into the scene"
Compared with other concerts that use stage effects to "create atmosphere", this concert is using VR technology to "create an atmosphere" for music.
This is the first celebrity 6DoF all-virtual VR concert in China, and it is also PICO's first attempt to produce VR video content that integrates 6DoF, full virtual scenes and real-time motion capture technology. The so-called 6DoF means higher degrees of freedom, people can not only rotate the XYZ axis, but also achieve displacement, and also support two-hand tracking.
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PICO uses the new self-developed 6DoF optical positioning system, broadband motor and spatial audio to make corresponding experience effects, allowing users to feel the bumps when the train is moving, the vibration of the wings of the insects and the blessing of 360° stereo surround sound brought by spatial audio, so that the real sense of presence 'straight up', fully mobilizing the user's visual, auditory, tactile and other senses, bringing users a novel experience different from traditional concerts.
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The concert will be designed according to different song repertoire to adapt to the high-fit stage effect, the concert is divided into four parts, thus bringing four completely different stage styles, CoCo Li Min starred in the avatar avatar, for the concert set up a 'time train' to travel to the millennium "rescue" Li Min's story line, allowing users to have their own roles in the concert, bring into the storyline, thus creating a unique musical and interactive experience.
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Users follow Li Min's four virtual looks to shuttle through the four themed scenes of "Fantasy and Enthusiasm of the Oriental Realm", "Retro Dynamic DISCO Dance Floor", "Memories of Light Encounters" and "Swinging Carnival Park". In this concert, Li Min performed a number of old songs and new songs, so that feelings and happiness were full! ! !
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Under Li Min's singing and dancing real-time motion capture, it took half a year to complete the production cycle. As the first company to eat crabs in China, PICO's long preparation cycle brings more detailed and real effects.
In this concert, everyone can be a super VIP.
The biggest feature of this VR concert is that users can interact with the entire scene.
For example, you can jump on this flower, run in front of Li Min, you can also walk to the back of the stage, and even play drums, which is completely different from the freedom of the real concert, and even far beyond the offline concert. You can walk around the scene freely, and the sound you hear will change in real time, and this sound field can be visualized and seen.
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Another advantage of VR is that it can enter and interact with other users elsewhere.
A room can accommodate 10 real users at the same time, and you and 9 other real people hear and see each other as if they were actually watching a concert together
All you need to do is put on your headset and you can 'step into' the concert scene and start your journey with your idol. Due to the multi-angle presentation of VR, audiences from all angles can get a good concert experience. More realistic and three-dimensional, with an interactive sense of immersion.
This VR brings you no longer a single plane, but also allows you to look at any angle at any time, so as to obtain countless possible perspectives. Through these technologies, you can not only watch the concert 360 degrees without dead angles, but also actually "control" the concert.
You're the photographer for the virtual concert
Compared with ordinary concerts, the biggest feature of VR concerts is that here, everything is 'controlled by you', you don't need to be limited to a fixed seat, you can walk around at will, follow the rhythm of the music, move your steps, and interact with the singer.
You are not only a viewer, you can also be a photographer, shoot your own unique stage video on the stage, you can take selfies, you can move the camera while walking, and you can also take selfies with Li Min; You can also be part of the stage, stand next to the idol, and complete the show with the idol.
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These cool effects are inseparable from the work of animators, modelers, and riggators!
Even your 'neighbor' next to the concert is completely 'controllable'. If you don't like the 'neighbors' next to the concert and think that they are too noisy or affect your concert experience, then you only need to press the button to easily let him activate the 'silent mode', allowing you to focus only on the idol's performance without being disturbed by others.
This time you can choose to talk to other users, but you can also choose to lower the volume or even block others, which is more than offline concerts where you can't choose to sit next to others and affect the experience, and you will have more choices in the virtual world.
The 'involution' of the music industry
Justin Bieber at Fortnite
Technology has never stopped exploring the form of entertainment, and technology has changed the presentation of entertainment, allowing us to no longer be limited to time and space, but also enjoy an online digital concert.
With the ravages of the new crown epidemic threatening the offline concert business in recent years, a number of foreign singers have 'rolled in' and opened up another way to open up concerts into the metaverse world. Back in 2019, American rapper Travis Scott hosted a successful virtual concert at Fortnite, "A Sister" Ariana Grande will also hold a virtual concert in Fortnite, and in November 2021, Justin Bieber took a metaverse concert a step further to join the craze for interactive virtual concerts by Fortnite.
📷 :Baidu.
Rapper Travis Scott used his virtual human identity to hold a live concert called "Astronomy" in the game "Fortnite", which allowed him to receive hundreds of millions of views, and Travis Scott himself managed to make 20 million US dollars!! By comparison, from 2018 to 2019, he earned only about $1 million per live action.
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Today, participants still remember when the giant Travis Scott virtual human fell into the scene like a shooting star, the audience was blown into the air by the air flow generated by the impact, and the audience could move freely and choose their favorite perspective to dance to the beat of the music.
Travis Scott's huge shock, both in terms of visuals and benefits, has made more and more stars excited and trapped. With the blessing of VR technology, it is also easier for concerts and stages to have their own style.
Unlike Travis Scott's cool, tech-savvy concerts, Ariana Grande's fairytale-like adventures are accompanied by A-sister's singing into another world, and there are also some mini-game interactive sessions that are different from Travis Scott.
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In just a few minutes, the digital stage exploded from under her and Ariana Grande walked out. You just fell off the floating stage and landed on a liquid slide filled with multicolored paint. Instead of just watching a show in the video game space, we embark on an epic journey led by Ariana Grande, like Charon with butterfly wings.
With the emergence of the epidemic, people are trapped in one place and unable to move, and the power of the Internet has further promoted the process of global informatization. Listening to music is everyone's talent, even a necessity for many people. In the past few days, a large number of music scenes, art exhibitions, industry summits, and other activities that once had hard requirements for offline are all "virtualizing" and "meta-universe".
Humans who tried something new for the first time also objected to photography for fear of capturing their souls; I'm afraid of movies because the trains on the screen are too realistic; Rejecting genetically modified food crops because of opposition to playing God...
Like every human technological development in history, the metaverse will slowly change people's habits and eventually become a grass and tree around you.