Last week, GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter John Legend put on an incredibly beautiful charity concert, entirely within virtual reality.
The concert - “A Night for Bigger Love” - was held as part of Legend’s own FREE AMERICA campaign which was launched around 5 years ago with the view of raising awareness around and hopefully ending mass incarceration in the US. All proceeds for this concert went towards the campaign.
The performance was hosted on the virtual music platform Wave, which recently landed a whopping $30 million in funding. They’re going to be using that money to deliver a whole host of VR music concerts throughout the foreseeable future, which will prove to be massively helpful for those artists whose live music careers have been hit by the global pandemic.
“We started the company with the sole purpose of helping to make artists money,” said Wave CEO, Adam Arrigo.
Mr. Legend’s own concert last Thursday was just the latest of a string of super successful VR concerts held in Wave. Virtual attendees were treated to a beautiful 17 minute lineup of some of Legend’s biggest hits, as well as tracks from his most recent album Bigger Love.
This kind of motion capture tech has also been used in blockbusters such as Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and Avengers: Infinity War, and in games such as Counterstrike and Creed: Rise to Glory.
