{"id":11177,"date":"2023-08-12T20:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/the-night-is-literally-in-my-hands-what-its-like-to-attend-an-acid-house-rave-in-virtual-reality\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:38:20","slug":"the-night-is-literally-in-my-hands-what-its-like-to-attend-an-acid-house-rave-in-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/the-night-is-literally-in-my-hands-what-its-like-to-attend-an-acid-house-rave-in-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The night is literally in my hands\u2019: what it\u2019s like to attend an acid house rave \u2013 in virtual reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using VR and haptic vests to transport users to a sweaty club in 1980s Britain, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is so realistic that you might need a lie down afterwards<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m not the kind of person who you\u2019d normally find at an illegal rave at a regular raving time, let alone 9am on a Wednesday. But that\u2019s where I found myself this week \u2013 virtually, anyway: with a haptic vest strapped on to my back, a controller in each hand and a virtual reality headset covering my eyes, I\u2019m transported back to 1989, hooning through the suburbs with my friends to find a secret dancefloor.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Emerson\u2019s award-winning interactive VR film, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats, tracks the acid-house movement and rave scene in Coventry, UK. It\u2019s wholly transportive \u2013 I forget that I\u2019m actually standing in the middle of an empty studio in metro Melbourne, because for half an hour I\u2019m in the back of a car, in a friend\u2019s poster-strewn bedroom, in a police station, hurtling down a freeway, bumping up against sweaty bodies in a club and walking through a forest hungover as the day breaks and the sun peeks through the trees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/aug\/13\/in-pursuit-of-repetitive-beats-vr-acmi-melbourne-international-film-festival\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e01b70c43d612e6600c35131a70fce612a11220a\/148_0_1631_979\/master\/1631.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3c770afe2d1c354999d1cd018c61e542\" title=\"\u2018The night is literally in my hands\u2019: what it\u2019s like to attend an acid house rave \u2013 in virtual reality\" \/>Using VR and haptic vests to transport users to a sweaty club in 1980s Britain, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is so realistic that you might need a lie down afterwards<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nI\u2019m not the kind of person who you\u2019d normally find at an illegal rave at a regular raving time, let alone 9am on a Wednesday. But that\u2019s where I found myself this week \u2013 virtually, anyway: with a haptic vest strapped on to my back, a controller in each hand and a virtual reality headset covering my eyes, I\u2019m transported back to 1989, hooning through the suburbs with my friends to find a secret dancefloor.<br \/>\nDarren Emerson\u2019s award-winning interactive VR film, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats, tracks the acid-house movement and rave scene in Coventry, UK. It\u2019s wholly transportive \u2013 I forget that I\u2019m actually standing in the middle of an empty studio in metro Melbourne, because for half an hour I\u2019m in the back of a car, in a friend\u2019s poster-strewn bedroom, in a police station, hurtling down a freeway, bumping up against sweaty bodies in a club and walking through a forest hungover as the day breaks and the sun peeks through the trees. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using VR and haptic vests to transport users to a sweaty club in 1980s Britain, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is so realistic that you might need a lie down afterwards Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I\u2019m not the kind of person who you\u2019d normally find at an illegal rave at a regular &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/the-night-is-literally-in-my-hands-what-its-like-to-attend-an-acid-house-rave-in-virtual-reality\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The night is literally in my hands\u2019: what it\u2019s like to attend an acid house rave \u2013 in virtual reality<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}