Virtual insanity: is VR the new frontier for music videos?

After projects with Run the Jewels and Reggie Watts, virtual reality company Wevr wants to break the fourth wall and bring music fans into the action

When Beyoncé released her “visual album” Lemonade on HBO earlier this year, many people were stunned by its ambition, its lack of a promo campaign and its visual impact.

But what if instead of pulling that hot sauce out of her bag she pulled out a can of magical spray paint that transported viewers to a fantasy world? A world where she participated in a space fight with an evil dimensional overlord, lay on the beach with Game of Thrones’ Nathalie Emmanuel, and watched Reggie Watts simultaneously play all of the world’s instruments while bathed in the many colors of the rainbow.

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Game of Thrones 360 Video

With nearly everyone getting into VR these days it is no surprise that the biggest TV show in world ‘Game of Thrones’ would also have some VR content of its own. The show which is based off of A Song of Ice and Fire series created by George R.R Martin is about to premiere its 6th season later this month.

Anyone that would be familiar with the books or the TV show would know that George R.R Martin’s world has a very large roster of characters which are spread out around his immense world. This then is probably why that the opening credits of the TV show there is a map of the known world showing the audience all the different locations that the show will be going to.

Now you can explore this map through your browsers or in VR as there is a 360 immersive video available to watch. So now you can feel like one of the many, many gods of the world and look down and around on those that worship you.

Check out the video here.

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The Year in Review – 2015

The first thing I need to do is this: THANK YOU READERS!!!

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I really can’t say enough how amazing this year was for me and it’s all because of you.  It’s really strange to sit in a room for hours and days at a time, pounding away at a keyboard, wondering if anyone will care.  To have that many people not only purchase my books, but to review them, share them, and generally be a cheerleader for them, I’m really blessed.

I’m a fan of lists, so I’m going to hit you with a few lists of my favorite things of the year, mostly in order though I didn’t think to hard about it (and I realize that some are not from 2015, but it was the year I finally got to them).

Movies

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  1. Mad Max: Fury Road
  2. The Martian
  3. Ex Machina
  4. Pitch Perfect 2
  5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  6. Avengers

Music

  1. Steven Wilson – Hand Cannot Erase
  2. Puscifer – Money Shot
  3. Silversun Pickups – Better Nature
  4. Robert DeLong – In the Cards
  5. War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream

Books / Novellas

  1. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  2. The Martian – Andy Weir
  3. Sorcerer of the Wildeeps – Kai Ashante Wilson
  4. The Grace of Kings – Ken Liu
  5. Old Man’s War – John Scalzi (yeah, I’m a little late on this one)

TV Shows

  1. Jessica Jones
  2. Sense8
  3. Orphan Black
  4. Vikings
  5. Game of Thrones

So that was some of the entertainment I enjoyed this year.   Highlights from my own career and a few personal items are as follows (in no particular order):

  1. My story “The Trouble with Virgins” came out in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  2. Hit #3 overall on the free downloads for Fires of Alexandria in July (over 70k+ total)
  3. Published six books in the Dashkova Memoirs
  4. Sold over 10,000 books
  5. Met and hung out with tons of writers and fans at Worldcon in Spokane in August
  6. Joined Codex
  7. Joined SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America)
  8. Spent an amazing week in Paris with my wife and kids
  9. Released the Women of the Apocalypse Bundle with a bunch of wonderful authors
  10. Ran my first half-marathon with my wife

Again, thank you for making it such a wonderful year.  I hope yours was as good as mine and here’s hoping that 2016 is even better!