Tag: virtual reality

Jean-Michel Jarre has been pushing the boundaries of electronic music and reimagining what live concerts can be since the 1970s. The French composer and producer’s one-off spectaculars – for example Place de la Concorde...

Lead: Music on TV increasingly feels like a relic of the past. Only a handful of shows have any kind of musical guests today and even MTV stopped having promo videos as its main focus years ago. But marketing music on TV...

Music virtual-reality startup MelodyVR says it plans to start live-streaming concerts in VR by the end of this year – and that it expects the demand for VR headsets to pick up in the years ahead. Asked about the debut...

How big will music – and specifically music-video content – really be on virtual-reality headsets? There’s a warning shot in the latest announcement from Facebook’s Oculus VR division, which is canning its...

Abbey Road Studios’ startup incubator Abbey Road Red has announced its latest addition: Barcelona-based startup Broomx Technologies.

In a busy day for Facebook news, the company unveiled the latest virtual-reality headset from its Oculus VR division. It’s called the Oculus Quest, and will go on sale in the spring of 2019 starting at $399. Like this...

The virtual-reality business is well into its latest trough of disillusionment after its last period of hype. Research firm IDC is putting a brave face on the latest figures for VR headset shipments, however. It claims...

Virtual-reality music startup MelodyVR launched its app commercially in the US and UK on 1 May, then in eight more European countries on 26 June. So its just-published figures for the first half of 2018 – revenues of...

Having already signed deals with labels, UK-based VR company MelodyVR is now signing partnerships with venues. It has just announced an exclusive deal with Alexandra Palace Trading Ltd (APTL) to record shows at Alexandra...

Lead: Affiliate marketing in music used to mean taking a few pennies from download sales that you drove on iTunes or CDs that you pushed on Amazon. But with Apple Music offering significant bounties for driving subscriptions...

Musical VR startup MelodyVR launched with a focus on pre-recorded performances from artists, but it has always been open about its desire to stream concerts live as well. Now those plans are coming in to focus. Today,...

Sony Music’s relationship with Sony’s consumer-tech and gaming divisions has always been fertile ground for virtual-reality experiments with artists, thanks to the PlayStation VR headset. We’ve written about VR projects...