BlackPink is performing a free VR concert for Meta Quest 3 and Oculus Quest 2 owners as a post-Christmas gift

Date:
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:07:40 +0000

Description:
If you have a Meta Quest 3 or Oculus Quest 2 K-pop group BlackPink are performing a free VR concert on December 26.

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If youre a K-Pop fan who owns a Meta Quest headset or gets one for Christmas, Meta has a gift for you; free front-row seats to a BlackPink concert in virtual reality taking place on December 26 at 5pm PT / Wednesday 1am GMT / Wednesday 12am ACT.

The recording is from the groups finale show of its recent World Tour performed at the Gocheok Sky Dome and will be available inside Metas Horizon Worlds metaverse platform.

And this isnt some 10-minute clip show, this is a full-on 70-minute performance that has been custom-made for VR according to a Meta press release. Itll feature a number of the groups most popular tracks including Shut Down , Pink Venom , and How You Like That and more. Get in early to
avoid disappointment

You can RSVP for the BlackPink concert on the events page but to watch it youll need a Quest headset specifically an Oculus Quest 2 , Meta Quest Pro , or Meta Quest 3 and the latest version of Meta Horizon Worlds installed.

Id recommend setting an alarm about 1 hour before the start time. This should give you time to install any updates if your app or headset isnt up to date, get your avatar into the right outfit or created if you dont yet have one,
and go through the Horizon Worlds tutorial and into the Music Valley event space if you havent played it already.

From experience, I can tell you its better to wait for a while in the event than it is to try and hop in last minute and be stuck in long virtual queues that cause you to miss the concert.

Popular artists are known to cause server crashes when an influx of people
try to load in all at the same time. Metas first big Foo Fighters VR concert suffered from this, and more recently Eminiems performance in Fortnites Big Bang event was missed by a lot of fans because of similar issues.

Thankfully if you do miss the BlackPink concert premiere because of server issues, simply cant make it because of other commitments, or want to watch it again later, replays will be available until the end of January according to the official press release. You might also like My favorite Quest 3 games and apps of December 2023 You don't love VR and that's a huge problem for Meta
and virtual reality The Meta Quest 3 doesnt beat my 4K TV for Xbox gaming,
but I dont care



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/blackpin k-is-performing-a-free-vr-concert-for-meta-quest-3-and-oculus-quest-2-owners-a s-a-post-christmas-gift


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