After years of working on music games, Rock Band VR gave us the opportunity to be on stage and perform in front of a crowd. The player could move around stage to get different vantage points, fans would react to you when you looked at them, while being immersed in environment with surround sound audio.

I was the Animation Lead for the project. One major change here is that the bandmates needed to perform their songs from start to finish linearly. Previous iterations relied heavily on camera cuts to play new animations without worrying about blending.

Below is a look at one of the songs which highlights some of the tech.