K-pop woman group aespa are set to premiere their first virtual-reality (VR) live performance at this yr’s South By Southwest (SXSW) pageant.
On January 13, VR live performance manufacturing and distribution firm AmazeVR introduced that the woman group’s ‘aespa VR Concert at Kwangya’ was chosen for the SXSW pageant going down in Austin, Texas this March.
Per the programme’s description on the SXSW web site, the 20-minute live performance is the quartet’s first VR live performance and might be set in Kwangya, an infinite, lawless digital area that options within the K-pop company’s and particularly aespa’s lore.
Viewers might be flown from the Real World into the FLAT, a managed digital airplane the place aespa’s ‘æ’s, or digital counterparts originate. In the FLAT, aespa and their æ-counterparts are capable of “synk” or enter a state of connection between people and their avatars.
These ideas had been launched in SM Entertainment’s ongoing SM Culture Universe (SMCU) sequence on YouTube, which stars aespa in its first two episodes.
Our “@aespa_official VR Concert at Kwangya” has been chosen as an official choice for the 2023 @sxsw Film & TV Festival’s XR Experience Competition. We can’t wait so that you can meet aespa at Kwangya contained in the metaverse this March!#aespa #VRConcerts #VRhttps://t.co/jkciwLYyjC
— AmazeVR (@AmazeVR) January 12, 2023
According to a January 13 report by The Korea Economic Daily, quite a lot of aespa’s songs, together with their debut single ‘Black Mamba’, might be featured through the live performance. Filming has reportedly been accomplished, and closing manufacturing for the present is underway.
“SXSW will be an opportunity to show AmazeVR’s technology and SM’s scalability toward metaverse contents. We plan to put up many more VR concerts in the future,” stated Park Jun-young, SM’s Chief Creative Officer, per The Korea Economic Daily. The live performance, which is produced by Studio A, a three way partnership between SM Entertainment and AmazeVR, may even be made out there on AmazeVR’s metaverse app.
Yesterday (January 16), aespa members Karina and Winter returned as a part of SM supergroup GOT The Beat alongside senior artists BoA, Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon and Hyoyeon and Red Velvet’s Wendy and Seulgi with their first mini-album ‘Stamp On It’.
In a four-star assessment of the document, NME’s Tanu I. Raj wrote that ‘Stamp On It’ combines the strengths of its members, “making for a confident and tightly structured work replete with pleasant surprises.”