{"id":70550,"date":"2016-10-26T01:05:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T01:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.aws.dancingastronaut.com\/?p=266611"},"modified":"2016-10-26T01:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T01:05:44","slug":"boiler-room-is-building-the-worlds-first-virtual-reality-music-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=70550","title":{"rendered":"Boiler Room is building the world\u2019s first virtual reality music venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For electronic music fans around the world, the chance to experience the best artists in dance music in the sweaty, intimate yet legendary setting that defines the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/boiler-room\/\" >Boiler Room<\/a> is a far-fetched dream. Now, for those with great distance between themselves and the live\u00a0streaming channel&#8217;s iconic shows, this dream may be closer than ever imagined. Boiler Room has partnered with virtual reality conglomerate Inception to build the world\u2019s first-ever virtual reality music venue.<\/p><p>The VR platform&#8217;s goal will be to allow remote fans to experience what it feels like to stand within the walls of a packed Boiler Room rave. In explaining the purpose of the new venture, Boiler Room CEO Blaise Bellville said in a press release that the new venue would \u201cbring people even closer to what it\u2019s like being at a sweaty rave or an amazing concert half-way across the world.\u201d<\/p><p>Boiler Room and Inception will be co-producing special events on\u00a0the new VR music platform, which viewers will be able to experience via VR headsets from their own homes or wherever else they may choose. The first-of-its-kind club is slated to launch in 2017.<\/p><p>To get a taste of what this new experience may entail, below is <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/a-trak\/\" >A-Trak<\/a>&#8216;s hour-long Boiler Room set from August.<\/p><p><iframe\nsrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09thvwlJvJE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><em>H\/T: <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/69281-boiler-room-is-building-a-virtual-reality-music-venue\/\" >Pitchfork<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>Read More:<\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2016\/10\/watch-skrillexs-entire-boiler-room-shanghai-set\/\" >Watch Skrillex\u2019s entire Boiler Room Shanghai set<\/a><\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2016\/06\/watch-disclosures-set-boiler-room-shanghai\/\" >Watch Disclosure\u2019s set from the Boiler Room Shanghai<\/a><\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2016\/06\/this-is-the-weirdest-boiler-room-se\/\" >Is this the weirdest Boiler Room set in the history of weird Boiler Rooms?<\/a><\/p> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DancingAstronaut\/~4\/2PPmpE0LwpU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streaming channel Boiler Room has partnered with virtual reality company Inception to launch the world&#8217;s first VR venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70551,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70550\/revisions\/70551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}