The9’s first live concert a virtual experience that felt real!

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"Chinese girl band The9’s first live concert a virtual experience that felt real thanks to extended reality technology

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• Extended reality (XR) technology combines virtual, augmented and mixed reality, and was used with impressive results during The9’s first live concerts this month
• The girl group were able to react and interact with their virtual environment in real time, and met their fans via live-streaming on wraparound screens

Against a three-dimensional backdrop of a firefly-studded forest, five members of hit Chinese girl band The9 performed their song Hunting on a Jeep that rolled past trees and fallen trunks.

The details of the images generated using extended reality (XR) technology, such as the jolting of the Jeep and the creeping moss that carpeted rocky outcrops, were impressive.

Held in late March, the online concert – The9’s first live concert since the band formed last year – featured more than a dozen XR-generated locations.

The images were projected onto wraparound screens on a 1,200 square metre (12,900 square foot) stage in a new virtual production studio in Hebei province.

Billed by event organiser and streaming platform iQiyi as the world’s first immersive and interactive concerts using XR technology, the events drew tens of thousands of viewers.

Tan Yinzi, director of the concert, says XR, which combines virtual, augmented and mixed reality, can create a virtual whimsical world that looks real – yet no 3D glasses are needed. “It is much better than the green screen and motion capture technology used in films,” she says. “Performers cannot see how well they match with the background instantaneously using motion capture and green screen.”