FUTVRE LANDS Virtual Reality Festival to Debut on 11/17 – Thomas Dolby Headlines
Feel like getting away to a totally immersive live music festival? You can – without leaving the comfy comforts of home.
The real-time social VR platform High Fidelity is making that happen by hosting FUTVRE LANDS, its first festival completely in virtual reality. The event will feature contests, giveaways plus one of the first VR live music shows ever produced.
Attend the FUTVRE LANDS festival from anywhere on the planet this Saturday, November 17th.
FUTVRE LANDS will take place November 17, 2018, from 12pm-4pm Pacific Time, and there are two ways to attend. Be there virtually in the FUTVRE LANDS domain, and/or in-person at High Fidelity’s VR Studio in San Francisco. It’s free to attend, but you must pick up tickets here.
As High Fidelity notes, FUTVRE LANDS is an entertainment festival that allows attendees to bypass the least enjoyable aspects of festivals including long lines, heat stroke and sudden downpours. Free and open to the public, it offers the VR-curious an opportunity to venture into social virtual experiences.
To access FUTVRE LANDS, simply don a VR headset, desktop or Google Daydream-enabled Android device. The event lineup includes Oculus Rift VR headset giveaways, the “Last Avatar Standing” trivia game show — where participants earn High Fidelity Coin (HFC) cryptocurrency — and live performances headlined by five-time Grammy nominee Thomas Dolby (“She Blinded Me with Science”). See the full schedule here.
High Fidelity is presenting FUTVRE LANDS as part of Virtual Reality Day, a 24-hour series of AR/VR events held in more than 50 cities and countries around the world. The entire celebration will move to FUTVRE LANDS for four hours of VR Day.
FUTVRE LANDS is enabled by High Fidelity’s open-source software for creating real-time social VR experiences, with ultra-low latency and high-definition audio that gives users an immersive and powerful sense of presence. High Fidelity’s platform can now support up to 500 people in a single virtual space, without sharding.
High Fidelity intends for virtual reality experiences like FUTVRE LANDS to offer new ways for artists to share their exhibits, teachers to explain their curriculums and creators to make a living selling their work. Musicians have already started using VR platforms to reach audiences limited by geography or expenses.
Upping the ante for the audio crowd, on December 2, 2018, music producers Ryan Hemsworth and Giraffage will hold a meet-and-greet inside High Fidelity to engage with fans after their fall tour.
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