Lambchild Superstar - Music Creation Experience with OKGO and Oculus Studios
A psychedelic music-making experience by OKGO, Within and Oculus Studios.
Get it on the Oculus Store → here
In 2017, my studio Horizons (with co-founders Yuli Levtov and David Li) was approached by Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin's VR powerhouse Within to help them develop an incredibly ambitious VR project in collaboration with Oculus Studios, and the musical / creative force of OKGO.
The task was to create an experience in VR where the user could produce their very own pop song, complete with drums, bass, guitar, synth, vocals (recorded and auto-tuned by the user) and a special cow-based freestyle solo instrument.
The final piece includes a staggering amount of layers of animation, machine learning, audio analysis and processing, a custom sound engine, VR interaction and musical theory.
In 2018 we were very excited to give the world a peek of the final piece, at both Tribeca Film Festival and Sonar+ in Barcelona.
Two audience members at a time, carefully guided by white-coated docents, could collaborate on building a song together in a purpose-built booth. The piece attracted a significant amount of positive attention, being described as 'Social VR's Rock Band' by Wired, and others.
My role as lead developer ranged from prototyping musical interaction concepts at the start of the project, to co-ordinating the fantastic development team across several different cities and time zones, overseeing the asset pipeline of animated creatures from the art team into Unity, and working directly on various parts of the project.
Released on 25th December 2022, we're excited to see what people create with this fantastic musical tool!