18 posts tagged with "Immersive"

Somewhere tonight, a warehouse room is filling up for a Saturday that will not end until the sun is up. The sub-bass is already loading the floor. Most of the people who would love that room will never stand in it. The flight, the door price, and the distance from home all get in the way. VPORT is built to narrow that gap.

VPORT's headset experience is available on Apple Vision Pro today. Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S support appears on our summer 2026 roadmap, but it is not available yet and there is no announced launch date. This is the honest version of what the current roadmap says, what remains subject to change, and why adding a lower-cost headset family could make immersive sets accessible to more fans.

Picture a club terrace with the booth ahead of you and the crowd behind. The kick arrives from the sound system. A reaction rises over your shoulder. Reflections reveal the size and shape of the room. Live sound is not a wall in front of your face. It is a scene around your body.

On-demand VR concerts promise something a live broadcast cannot: the ability to watch a recorded performance later, on your own schedule. But that phrase can describe very different experiences. One listing might be a flat concert video viewed inside a headset. Another might be a 180-degree or 360-degree recording. A third might add stereoscopic depth or spatial audio.

The label is not enough to tell you which one you are getting.

Before you pay, create an account, or plan a long viewing session, check the public listing for the format, access window, device support, completeness, accessibility, and source. This guide gives you a practical way to do that. For a broader overview of the format, see our VR concerts definitive guide; if you're specifically weighing a techno set, Techno in VR: the room test covers the same checklist with genre-specific detail.

It is 11pm. You want to hear something loud. Not a playlist, not a phone-speaker clip of a set someone filmed from the back of a festival crowd. You want to stand in a room while the low end moves the air and a build resolves into a drop you can feel in your ribs. You have a Vision Pro on the shelf and $4.99 in your pocket. The only question left is the one this guide answers: what do you actually play?

Finding your first show used to be the awkward part. You knew the feeling VPORT delivers once you are inside a set. Getting to the right set, out of a growing catalog, was the friction. That friction is gone. On-site search and a browse-by artist, venue, and event grid are now live, so you can go from opening the app to standing in the front row in about the time it takes to make a coffee.

We do not usually write about plumbing. The magic of VPORT is what happens after you press play: the low end moving the air, the lights above you, a build resolving into a drop you feel in your ribs. Nobody buys a headset to admire a fast server response time.

But the last few weeks of work were the kind that you feel without ever seeing. The whole point of it was to shorten the distance between wanting a set and standing in the front row of one. So here is a plain-language changelog of what shipped, and why each piece makes finding your next night out a little easier.

Search for immersive concerts in London and you will find very different experiences described with the same word. One event might combine a live band with digital performers. Another might surround the audience with projection and spatial audio. A third might be an interactive performance, while a VR experience could require a headset.

That variety is the first thing to understand: “immersive concert” is a useful category, but it is not a promise of one particular format. The safest way to choose an event is to check what is actually live, what technology is involved, and what the ticket includes.

Every year CES promises the future. Most years the future arrives as a press release and a locked demo booth. This year was different. The week of January 7, spatial computing stopped being a concept and started being a supply chain. Real headsets with real ship dates. Real cameras with real specs. Real software with real users. The conversation shifted from "will this work" to "what do we build on it."

We spent the week on the ground in Las Vegas. Not to gawk at concept cars or translucent TVs. We went because CES 2026 was the first trade show where the entire capture-to-playback pipeline for immersive content was represented under one roof. And the category that kept coming up in every backroom meeting, every panel sidebar, every late-night conversation at the Wynn? Live music.

A New Way to Experience Music​

For as long as music has existed, people have crossed borders and time zones to feel the energy of a live show - the bass in your chest, the crowd moving together, the connection between artist and audience.

But what if being there was no longer limited by location, cost, or timing?

That question became the starting point of VPORT.

VPORT is built on a simple belief:
music should not be limited by physical space.