Will VR Change The Music Industry | Features [Video]

Virtual Reality (VR) has come a long way since its motion sickness-inducing inception. Now, high end machines like the HTC Vive, alongside cheaper systems such as Google’s Glass have made the virtual realm more accessible than ever.

Video games, film & TV, and even marketing have all seen VR shake-up their sectors; will the music industry be next? Some think so, with technology magazine Wired going as far as to say VR might be “music’s salvation.” What does this mean?

How successful have VR music videos been so far?

Aside from giving us Daft Punk’s great Tron Legacy soundtrack, VR and music have had very little to do with each other, traditionally. But that was before VR got good. 2016 was “the year of VR” according to multiple sources. This was based on two factors: a huge improvement in the quality of the technology, and a vast increase in the accessibility …