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Most of my team’s background is the video game industry, and what inspires us is interaction,” he tells Music Ally. Our platform is a social platform really. “The 360 stuff is a fundamentally different thing. Two very different approaches, which is a healthy thing at this stage of the music/VR market. MelodyVR wants to put fans in the front row (or on stage, or high up in the seats, etc) while TheWaveVR wants to put them in the middle of an interactive light-show – or “musical metaverse” as Arrigo has described it. TheWaveVR’s technology is more of an extension of stage visuals and music videos into VR. The latter, which Music Ally recently profiled, puts 360-degree cameras in venues and films performances. His involvement is a clue to understanding what TheWaveVR does, and how it differs from another recently-emerged-from-stealth-mode music VR startup, MelodyVR.
TheWaveVR’s investors include KPCB Edge – the seed-financing arm of VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers – as well as Seedcamp, whose investment team member Dave Haynes (previously of SoundCloud) is an adviser to Arrigo’s startup.Īnother adviser is David Wexler, aka Strangeloop, who has worked on live visuals for artists including Flying Lotus, Skrillex and the Rolling Stones. As a background for founding a music / virtual reality startup, it’s about perfect. More recently, he was the product lead at music/tech startup Zya, working on social app Ditty and music-creation game Song Battles. Although hopefully they won’t be booing…”Īdam Arrigo is CEO of TheWaveVR, the US startup that recently raised $2.5m of seed funding to develop its “social VR music platform”, which is due to launch later in 2016.Īrrigo knows about Rock Band: he used to work at the game’s developer Harmonix, initially as a lead sound designer on its music franchise, before working on projects including Disney’s Fantasia: Music Evolved and Harmonix Music VR. Those are actual musicians on the stage, and the people booing in the audience are real people. “What we’re building is a bit like Rock Band, except real. King holds a weekly visual residency at LA's experimental music night Low End Theory.Tags: dance music Live Startups thewavevr US Virtual Reality His work has been featured in several publications, including: The Creators Project, LA Weekly, Vice, Rolling Stone, Wired, Redbull Music Academy, and The Guardian. He is a member of the Brainfeeder label and co-founder of the AV collective Teaching Machine. Recently, his talents have carried him into visual work with such artists as The Weeknd, Prince, Erykah Badu, Thundercat, and Hiatus Kaiyote. His talents and creativity have been enlisted by the likes of DJ Snake, on an LED array that produces true 3D volumetric visuals, and famed French electronic artist Tchami, who commissioned him to design a live performance installation piece. King is known for his use of innovation in visual design and out-of-the-box thinking, fitting his work to the needs and energy of the music he’s been tapped to help bring to life. Notably, he also developed and performed Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Good Kid Maad City’ visual show for Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’ Tour, and the 2013 visual production for fellow Brainfeeder artist Daedelus, whom he developed a real-time silhouette projection mapping technique christened “Shadowplay.” Alongside frequent collaborator Strangeloop, King is well known for his work developing Flying Lotus’ mind-bending LAYER3 and Hypercube visual show, which was rated “Best Light Show’” of Coachella 2015. (AKA Timeboy) is a Los Angeles-based visual artist, composer and VJ.