BLACKPINK has been on everyone’s mind this year! This super quartet has slayed left, right, and center with their “Born Pink World Tour,” which concluded in September in Seoul, South Korea. Even though the BLACKPINK girls haven’t released much music in 2023, they still have been up to major moves, including a collaboration with Meta Quest to drop their virtual reality concert!
You read that right! Our queens joined forces with Meta to bring to life the “BLACKPINK: A VR Encore.” With this show, BLINKs (that’s the name BLACKPINK fans wear proudly) will get the chance to see the finale of the “Born Pink” show in South Korea. That’s what we call a special treat for fans to see the final of their concert once again, and it’s even more special for those who weren’t able to attend.
This virtual reality collaboration came to be thanks to production company The Diamond Bros., which is taking the lead in the production and direction. Also, all the owners of the Meta Quest VR will get themselves a juicy front-row ticket to the BLACKPINK experience. Can you imagine seeing “Typa Girl” and vibe with that bop in virtual reality?
Now, it’s time to mark your calendars, BLINks: the “BLACKPINK: A VR Encore” will premiere on Tuesday, December 26th – talk about the perfect Xmas gift! Are you ready to see the craziest display of powerful visuals? Then, catch this trailer to get a sneak peek of that virtual reality and BLACKPINK magic that’s coming to you next month:
We are not getting an actual update on their contract renewal process, but we love ourselves some nice VR shows!
This is a nice idea with a lot of "Wait...what?" catches to it. I'm sure the actual presentation will be cool, but to watch it, you need a decent VR headset which many people don't have. It's also on Meta, which means Mark Zuckerberg, one of the foulest people controlling a huge chunk of the Internet, must have spent a huge amount of money to get the girls and YG to agree to it. It's a blatant effort to drive people to Zuck's so far underwhelming platform. Right now, it's only been announced that the concert will be on the platform for a month, with no word if after a month, the concert will be released outside Meta. The VR aspect is also something of a gimmick since unless you're interested in turning around and looking at fans screaming, most of your time will be focused on the girls performing, which you hardly need VR for. I applaud the girls and YG for experimenting with the concept and I'm sure YG is also laying plans for a VR Babymonster concert if this is successful along with other groups, but it may be a premature experiment that's likely to frustrate and anger Blinks once they get into the fine print and find out the hoops they have to jump through to see it.