Rec Room hosts immersive music festival in virtual reality

Next weekend, the first immersive music festival will take place on the Metaverse platform Rec Room. What can you expect?

The "Rec Rocks" festival will take place next weekend from 11 to 12 March. Rec Room will present five immersive concerts each day in a virtual environment developed especially for the festival.

Rec Room: Free music festival for all

Admission is free for all Rec Room users. All you need to do is install the Rec Room app on iOS, Android, Steam or the Xbox One, Xbox Series, Playstation 5 or Playstation 4 consoles.

Those who want to experience the concerts in virtual reality need SteamVR-compatible PC VR glasses, Meta Quest, Quest 2, Quest Pro or Playstation VR. Rec Room is not yet available for Sony's current PSVR 2 headset.

If you have friends who are on different platforms, you can still watch the festival together. Rec Room is a cross-platform title, which means you will also meet users who enter the virtual game via different devices than you.

Rec Rocks Festival: Line-up and starting times of the acts

Rec Rocks offers a colourful mix of pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic music. Singer-songwriter Ethan Bortnick and EDM band Tokyo Machine have been announced as headliners.

The full line-up for the Rec Rocks Festival is as follows:

Saturday, March 11th

11 am PST - The Royal Foundry

12 noon PST - Akintoye

1 pm PST - Tokyo Machine

2 pm PST - Clinton Kane

3 pm PST - Suzy Shinn

Sunday, March 12th

11 am PDT - Suzy Shinn

12 noon PDT - Haven

1 pm PDT - Ethan Bortnick

2 pm PDT - Charlie Curtis-Beard

3 pm PDT - The Royal Foundry

Away from the festival stages, Rec Room will set up digital merchandise stands on both days with T-shirts, jumpers, glasses, and other accessories for your avatars. However, it is unclear whether you will be supporting the performing bands or whether the proceeds will go entirely to the hosts.

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