I just finished watching something entirely new in the music industry. Fortnite did a completely digital concert as a special event live in-game. The concert headlined an artist that goes by the moniker MarshMellow.
While this is not the first completely digital concert(Minecraft did an event called "Coalchella"), it is certainly the biggest with over 1.3 million people watching on YouTube and Twitch streams with even more in game. They used special effects and items that were never seen before in game.
They also put effort into the setup. While they could have just plopped the entire stage and crowd platform into the game when they needed it, they gradually brought equipment to the location in game over a period of a couple days. They built an actual stage with trussing, line arrays, lighting, and video walls.
It was clearly a time coded show. All of the visuals were synced to the music. They also used songs of several genres to appeal to a wider audience. While the first song was MarshMellow's alone, the other songs were by artists such as Bastille and Logic that featured MarshMellow.
It was also unique in the aspect that you could view it from any angle and could get as close as you want to the action. At one point, giant beach balls appeared and you could bounce them around. That's one aspect about digital concerts, in that you aren't limited by the limitations of the physical world. For instance, they turned off gravity for a bit and lowered it during the show. They had giant dancing holograms and at one point a hologram of MarshMellow started flying.
This could be a cool industry or sub industry. Completely virtual concerts that are live and that you might need to pay to gain access to. In Fortnite's case, they disabled the ability to eliminate opponents so everyone got to view the event.
While it was a one time event, you can watch a recording of it from the Twitch streamer DrLupo here:
While this is not the first completely digital concert(Minecraft did an event called "Coalchella"), it is certainly the biggest with over 1.3 million people watching on YouTube and Twitch streams with even more in game. They used special effects and items that were never seen before in game.
They also put effort into the setup. While they could have just plopped the entire stage and crowd platform into the game when they needed it, they gradually brought equipment to the location in game over a period of a couple days. They built an actual stage with trussing, line arrays, lighting, and video walls.
It was clearly a time coded show. All of the visuals were synced to the music. They also used songs of several genres to appeal to a wider audience. While the first song was MarshMellow's alone, the other songs were by artists such as Bastille and Logic that featured MarshMellow.
It was also unique in the aspect that you could view it from any angle and could get as close as you want to the action. At one point, giant beach balls appeared and you could bounce them around. That's one aspect about digital concerts, in that you aren't limited by the limitations of the physical world. For instance, they turned off gravity for a bit and lowered it during the show. They had giant dancing holograms and at one point a hologram of MarshMellow started flying.
This could be a cool industry or sub industry. Completely virtual concerts that are live and that you might need to pay to gain access to. In Fortnite's case, they disabled the ability to eliminate opponents so everyone got to view the event.
While it was a one time event, you can watch a recording of it from the Twitch streamer DrLupo here:
World of Color was my dream show to work someday... someday even I wanted to program a new version of it myself...
