Viacom’s emerging entertainment technology group, Viacom NEXT, and NYC Media Lab have created a fellowship program to “encourage the development of premier music-based virtual reality content for audiences.”
Viacom NEXT, in collaboration with NYC Media Lab, recently launched their 2017 Viacom Music + VR Fellowship, a program that will give six graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to create music-based virtual reality experiences centered on an individual piece of music of their choice from Viacom’s vast library of over 25,000 tracks—as well as individual instrument recordings from the Viacom catalog.
Each fellow, who is allowed to work independently or in teams of two, will be encouraged to create a unique VR experience that merges the worlds of music, interactive art, virtual reality and storytelling, in hopes of coming up with innovative methods for recording artists to deliver new music to their fans. In turn, fans will be able to experience music from their favorite artists in ways that transcend anything they’ve ever encountered.
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Source: VRScout