{"id":213095,"date":"2017-08-22T23:59:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T03:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/lcd-soundsystems-latest-music-video-is-an-interactive-virtual-reality-dance-performance-variety\/"},"modified":"2017-08-22T23:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T03:59:53","slug":"lcd-soundsystems-latest-music-video-is-an-interactive-virtual-reality-dance-performance-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/virtual-reality\/lcd-soundsystems-latest-music-video-is-an-interactive-virtual-reality-dance-performance-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"LCD Soundsystem&#8217;s Latest Music Video Is an Interactive Virtual Reality Dance Performance &#8211; Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    LCD Soundsystem has teamed up    with the Amsterdam-based design studios Puckey and Moniker as    well as with Googles data arts team to produce a kind    of abstract, interactive music video for their latest single    Tonite. Dance Tonite, as the piece is called, lets owners    of high-end VR headsets dance to the singles music, capturing    their motions and then broadcasting them to anyone visiting the    projects website with their computer, phone or Daydream VR    headset.  <\/p>\n<p>    Its a fun idea thats hard to put in words, which is why    Google produced a video to show what Dance Tonite is all    about:  <\/p>\n<p>    The uncanniness of the Dance Tonite experience is super    entertaining and weird, and I really enjoy it. I didnt expect    to enjoy it, said LCD Soundsystems James Murphy. I like the    simplicity of it.  <\/p>\n<p>    Dance Tonite uses WebVR, a technology that makes it possible    to develop VR experiences for the web, where they can be    consumed with any browser. Anyone visiting the    experiences website with a capable device can switch to VR    mode, and enjoy it as a spectator or even participant.  <\/p>\n<p>    We wanted to see if we could treat a VR device as a tool for    self-expression and Dance Tonite fits perfectly within a    series of participative interactive music videos which weve    directed over the years, said project creator Jonathan    Puckey. Taking a piece of music likeLCD Soundsystems    Tonite as a starting point can act as the perfect scaffold to    create something within.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/digital\/news\/lcd-soundsystem-dance-tonite-vr-1202535460\/\" title=\"LCD Soundsystem's Latest Music Video Is an Interactive Virtual Reality Dance Performance - Variety\">LCD Soundsystem's Latest Music Video Is an Interactive Virtual Reality Dance Performance - Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> LCD Soundsystem has teamed up with the Amsterdam-based design studios Puckey and Moniker as well as with Googles data arts team to produce a kind of abstract, interactive music video for their latest single Tonite. Dance Tonite, as the piece is called, lets owners of high-end VR headsets dance to the singles music, capturing their motions and then broadcasting them to anyone visiting the projects website with their computer, phone or Daydream VR headset. Its a fun idea thats hard to put in words, which is why Google produced a video to show what Dance Tonite is all about: The uncanniness of the Dance Tonite experience is super entertaining and weird, and I really enjoy it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/virtual-reality\/lcd-soundsystems-latest-music-video-is-an-interactive-virtual-reality-dance-performance-variety\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}