Wave, the digital leisure firm recognized for placing on a ton of VR concert events just a few years again, truly deprecated VR help for its app again in early 2021 to deal with streaming its model of digital concert events to conventional platforms. Now, by means of a brand new partnership with VR headset creator Pico, Wave is ready to leap again into VR with extra concert events, out there completely on Pico gadgets.
Via the partnership, Wave says it’s growing “a sequence of immersive 3D live performance experiences with massively world-renowned artists” for Pico’s line of client headsets. These embody Pico Neo 3 and the brand new Pico 4 headset.
Its debut live performance is ready to function The Calvin Harris Expertise, going down on January thirteenth at 8:00PM GMT (native time right here). The expertise is alleged to final roughly 1 hour, which features a five-minute preshow and 25 min unique prolonged set.
Solely followers in Europe and Asia can have entry, the corporate says, the one markets the place Pico’s client headsets are presently out there. The VR-accessible live performance is alleged to be an “prolonged model,” of which solely a portion will likely be broadcasted on TikTok LIVE.
The live performance is slated to take followers on what Wave calls “a musical journey by means of Calvin’s digital universe, a metaverse celebration full of audio reactive visuals in a nature impressed luminous world.”
Calvin Harris is ready to carry out dwell as a digital avatar in an immersive atmosphere that Pico customers can be a part of and probe for themselves. Customers may also have the chance to affect the dwell expertise by “interacting with others, creating dazzling results all through the present by clapping, writing customized messages within the air, and even be a part of Calvin on stage.”
To participate within the live performance, customers should obtain the Pico Video app from the Pico App Retailer, then choose The Calvin Harris Expertise in your Pico Video feed on the day of the present.
You possibly can RSVP to Wave’s premier Calvin Harris live performance right here. Rebroadcasts for Pico customers will re-air day by day on weekends beginning Jan 14-26 at 8pm GMT.