Harmonix Music VR Is An Immersive Music Experience Coming To The Samsung Gear VR!

Harmonix is branching out into virtual reality, but they are putting a music twists on virtual reality or at least it appears they are. Moments ago they just announced Harmonix Music VR which will be exclusive or at least exclusive at launch, to the Samsung Gear VR. It is a new virtual reality music experience, that puts you into a music-driven dreamscape allowing you to experience your music like nothing before. It take advantage of Harmonix’s Music Analysis Engine which will generate specific event sequences to specific songs. You will be ably to enter a musically responsive environment and can choose from many different audio visualizations for your songs. Harmonix Music VR will be available when the Gear VR from Samsung launches later in 2014.

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HARMONIX TO BRING IMMERSIVE MUSIC EXPERIENCE TO SAMSUNG’S GEAR VR

“Harmonix Music VR” to ship for Oculus-powered Gear VR this year

Cambridge, MA – September 5^th,  2014 – Harmonix is excited to announce “Harmonix Music VR,” an all new virtual reality music experience, will be coming to Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus.

“Harmonix Music VR” transports you to a fully immersive, music-driven dreamscape allowing you to experience your tunes like never before. It uses Harmonix’s proprietary Music Analysis Engine to generate a song-specific, high-resolution event sequence that drives the reactive elements in your virtual world. Sit back and relax, taking in the vibrant, musically responsive environment, or explore for even more audio visualizations set to your own tracks.

“Harmonix has always been interested in creating fundamentally new ways for people to interact with music,” says studio CEO Steve Janiak. “There’s an incredible amount of potential for this with virtual reality, and ‘Harmonix Music VR’ is just one way we can deliver on these types of innovative experiences. We can’t wait to hear what people think about this new way to experience the music they love.”

“Harmonix Music VR” will be available alongside Samsung’s Gear VR when it launches later this year.