VR Music Videos

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We had two dozen remote people with VR gear show up in a virtual soundstage to create a music video in 1 continous shot. Here's the video:

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am6Flb6T6YQ

https://github.com/gm3/Virtual-Music-Video-Production-Breakdown-Boomboxhead-2

Photo Studio

Overall, it’s the application of real-time animation in a VR environment that has the most potentially disruptive effect on Hollywood, since it can be used to create a virtual studio to create TV shows, training videos, and so forth. Source

Pics

Rehearsal

We contacted dancers, actors, vtubers, and personalities that we wanted featured in the video and submitted the previs to them 3 days early. From there they could see and consider being part of the shoot. In total 3 dance crews signed on to the shoot. We have built our cast and crew completely over the network

We created a pre-visualization of the final video to hone in on the details, context of shots, and frames. Stand in markers (avatars) were used to get the focal length, depth of field, and general look captured into a format we could share internally with our production team. To get everyone on the same page we used the previsualiztion video to communicate the project details with the production manager, cast, and crew.

Everybody knew where to stand or sit based on the blue markers that could be toggled on/off.

Why VR?

https://github.com/gm3/virtualproduction-vrchat

“Well I see it as a certain uniqueness to it and I see a lot of charms to it as well too. Sometimes it can come out flawless and beautiful and abstract in many ways. Sometimes it can just look really dumb and very funny, I enjoy both.” - Fake Morgan Freeman

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6gQ5dwBKe0

“It’s so much easier to meet up in VRchat than it would be in real life. For instance you gotta book a plane ticket and get a passport, so on so forth. The fact that you can log in, come to an online world, and connect with people around the globe it makes it just amazing to gather multiple cultures in one place.” - random anime girl