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#1206: The District VR Enables Professional DJs to Play Live Social VR Gigs without Mixer Hardware
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#1206: The District VR Enables Professional DJs to Play Live Social VR Gigs without Mixer Hardware
FromVoices of VR
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Apr 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Another World VR developers Ioulia Isserlis and Max Sacker thought it was a prank when German Hip Hop legend Dennis Lisk (aka Denyo) reached out via email to collaborate on developing a social VR and a completely virtualized live DJ performance toolkit. But it wasn’t a prank, and they’ve been building a real-time audio engine compatible with Unreal Engine in order to meet the live performance standards of professional DJs to mix, sync, and modulate music in real-time. Most DJ sets in social VR either rely upon external hardware where the audio is streamed in, or they just play back a recording of a set. But for Lisk, he wanted to be able to perform live in order to more dynamically respond to the audience without having to split his attention between the physical hardware and any virtual representation of it. The end result is The District VR, which is an ambitious fusion of all of these live DJ mixing tools with aspirational plans to build out social VR clubs and create new monetization opportunities for DJs and musical artists.
Released:
Apr 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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