The first thing to do is to erase from your mind all previous experiences with 3D, forget about the antediluvian two-tone glasses and other (failed) ideas that have accumulated on the train of history, and prepare for the ‘shock’. The impact you make as soon as you put on the immersive glasses is important. As a challenge to your senses, and as you get used to it, within a few seconds or minutes, you may feel the urge to (dangerously) lose sight of the real world. If we can keep calling it that.
The model tested by this journalist is the Meta Quest 2 virtual reality glasses and headsets with Oculus lensesplaces you in front of a three-dimensional mural where a menu with all applications is displayed, from which you can choose the music presentation, Using separate controllers or ‘joysticks’ with laser pointers (one in each hand) and seeing yourself in a flash placed in the middle of a concert by American singer and rapper Macklemore, for example. Not anywhere but on the same stage, feeling like a hybrid of spy and ‘premium’ guest, sharing the situation with the artist and his backup singers and instrumentalists.
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You turn your head and the visual plane continues and you see the audience singing, chanting, getting up, dancing, creating an immersive situation. You are part of the audience coming from a privileged place. This allows for many other music-related uses, such as attending a drum tutorial where the teacher plays cymbals and timpani at arm’s length from your nose. Here you can capture details and varying nuances that are inaccessible in a traditional YouTube video.
J. Balvin, Travis Scott and Billie Eilish are some of the artists who performed at Facebook company Meta. It was reconstructed by reimagining an artist no longer with us, the rapper Notorious BIG (who was murdered in 1997 at the age of 24), in the form of a hyper-realistic avatar. And they infuse the mural with their immersive k-pop ‘show’, Korean pop, which is one step ahead.
These advances are interpreted as a way to access metadata. For now, the feel Meta Quest creates in live music applications offers a level of realism that rivals the traditional physical part. And compared to the usual concert, you’re spared the travel and perhaps the queues, the pushing, the views blocked by pesky heads or the beer-sticky floors.
What about the social factor, sharing the concert? This will be possible by perfecting the meeting with other users represented by avatars in parallel reality. But we’re not talking science fiction anymore. Immersion allows you to forget that you’re living in, say, a tiny unlit mezzanine and feel like you’re ensconced in a tropical mansion or high-rise triplex in Manhattan, where you’re gracefully paraded towards the best possible location for your favorite artist’s ‘show’. . Yes, it will be very tempting to stay and live in the metaverse forever.