Virtually live
With billions of dollars of being poured into the development of VR technology, live music is regarded as one of the key markets for the sector. Eamonn Forde investigates
Feature By IQ | 5 May 2017
The hype around virtual reality (VR) gets louder by the week, and it’s been a long time since it was just the preserve of a techno-centric and academic niche.
Its origins as a phrase date back to French theatre in the first half of the 20th century, but it started gaining traction as a concept in science fiction writing from the 1970s onwards. By the 1990s, rudimentary VR headsets were being used by gaming giants like Sega.
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