Megan Thee Stallion’s music won’t be my private cup of tea, however I do know good tech once I see it—and I used to be floored once I hoped into the not too long ago launched Megan Thee Stallion VR Live performance expertise to seek out one of many highest high quality VR reside motion performances I’ve ever seen.
The free Megan Thee Stallion VR Live performance app consists of one demo scene, with viewers given the choice to buy further scenes in-app.
The app was developed by AmazeVR, which labored instantly with Megan Thee Stallion to seize top quality 3D footage of her performances with a shifting digital camera, making it really feel such as you’re floating proper subsequent to her as she sings and dances. The reside motion seize is built-in with a pre-rendered CG surroundings, and the app neatly provides some minimal real-time components into the scene to blur the road between pre-rendered and real-time. All in all it’s a really properly executed and on-brand tackle a VR live performance expertise (although sadly lacking the important thing capacity to look at with mates).
The superb seize high quality truly made it ever so barely unnerving to be that shut to the artist, who in among the performances is actually supplying you with a private strip tease. And whereas functionally there’s no nudity, the efficiency undoubtedly couldn’t be known as ‘secure for work’.
That in itself was fascinating; Megan Thee Stallion VR Live performance is barely accessible on App Lab at this level, it’s to my data probably the most ‘grownup’ piece of content material Meta has but allowed onto App Lab. Though App Lab is an official however unlisted ‘shadow retailer’ for Quest content material, builders nonetheless must abide by Meta’s content material tips.
In response to Meta’s content material tips for Quest apps, full on erotic content material is forbidden, however “relating to mature content material (as an example, violence, alcohol/medication, nudity, or grownup language), we’re more likely to settle for content material that typically falls throughout the threshold of an R-rating for a film,” the corporate clarifies.
This seems to be one of many clearest examples but of an app toeing that line—thus, the Megan Thee Stallion VR Live performance units an necessary precedent.
This isn’t the primary time we’ve seen builders check the boundaries of App Lab. One of many first examples we noticed was The Unity Dice, which examined to see if Meta would permit onto App Lab a technically sound app that was utterly devoid of significant content material. They did. One other app confirmed us that Meta would allow triple-digit pricing on App Lab—not less than for a clearly reputable app.