Well, what do you know? Quite by accident, I noticed that TheWaveVR was listed under the free apps in the Oculus Store, so I downloaded and installed the client software. Up until now, I haven’t been able to access TheWaveVR because I’m in Canada and it had been restricted to Americans only. I guess they changed that recently!
TheWaveVR is a social VR platform that is all about music. It describes itself as:
TheWaveVR is a platform for people who love music, enabling them to view, host, and socialize in shows world wide, anytime, anywhere.
We’re empowering artists and music lovers alike by transforming the way people connect through music.
Music creators can fully customize how their audience experiences the music – whether it’s by transforming the venue from a realistic nightclub to outer space with a click of a button – or putting on the most unimaginable light show ever.
Fans won’t have to travel the globe or miss out on their favorite DJs, musicians or festivals and can experience the music like never before, while socializing in totally new ways alongside their friends.
TheWaveVR is quite the trippy experience! You can visit your own personal space, which is called a cave, set up different visual effects (lasers, tentacles, etc.) and play tracks on turntables in your very own DJ booth! I also visited three different shows, each with different, creative, mesmerizing visual displays that act and react to the music and your hand controllers. I encountered quite a few other avatars as well in my travels. It was great fun! It’s very easy to learn how to navigate.
There’s a calendar of user-created parties called Waves, which you can join.
Here’s an early access launch trailer from a year ago:
Recently, TheWaveVR teamed up with The Glitch Mob to transform their third album, See Without Eyes, into a fly-through VR experience:
TheWaveVR has a website, they have an active Discord server, and they are also on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. I’ll leave you with a three-hour video of TheWaveVR in action. I think what you can do, even though it’s still in beta, is pretty impressive!