Ok-pop lady group aespa are set to premiere their first virtual-reality (VR) live performance at this 12 months’s South By Southwest (SXSW) competition.
On January 13, VR live performance manufacturing and distribution firm AmazeVR introduced that the lady group’s ‘aespa VR Live performance at Kwangya’ was chosen for the SXSW competition going down in Austin, Texas this March.
Per the programme’s description on the SXSW website, the 20-minute live performance is the quartet’s first VR live performance and shall be set in Kwangya, an infinite, lawless digital house that options within the Ok-pop company’s and specifically aespa’s lore.
Viewers shall be flown from the Actual World into the FLAT, a managed digital aircraft the place aespa’s ‘æ’s, or digital counterparts originate. Within the FLAT, aespa and their æ-counterparts are capable of “synk” or enter a state of connection between people and their avatars.
These ideas have been launched in SM Leisure’s ongoing SM Tradition Universe (SMCU) collection on YouTube, which stars aespa in its first two episodes.
Our “@aespa_official VR Live performance at Kwangya” has been chosen as an official choice for the 2023 @sxsw Movie & TV Pageant’s XR Expertise Competitors. We will’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
In accordance with a January 13 report by The Korea Economic Daily, a wide range of aespa’s songs, together with their debut single ‘Black Mamba’, shall be featured through the live performance. Filming has reportedly been accomplished, and ultimate manufacturing for the present is underway.
“SXSW shall be a chance to indicate AmazeVR’s expertise and SM’s scalability towards metaverse contents. We plan to place up many extra VR live shows sooner or later,” stated Park Jun-young, SM’s Chief Inventive Officer, per The Korea Financial Day by day. The live performance, which is produced by Studio A, a three way partnership between SM Leisure and AmazeVR, can even be made accessible 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, Women’ Era’s Taeyeon and Hyoyeon and Purple Velvet’s Wendy and Seulgi with their first mini-album ‘Stamp On It’.
In a four-star evaluate of the document, NME’s Tanu I. Raj wrote that ‘Stamp On It’ combines the strengths of its members, “making for a assured and tightly structured work replete with nice surprises.”