A Virtual Reality Volumetric Music Video: Featuring New Pagans

Music videos are short films that integrate songs and imagery produced for artistic and promotional purposes. Modern music videos apply various media capture techniques and creative post-production technologies to provide a myriad of stimulating and artistic approaches to audience entertainment and engagement for viewing across multiple devices. Within this domain, volumetric video (VV) capture technologies (Figure 1) have become an emerging means of recording and reproducing musical performances for new audiences to access via traditional 2D screens and emergent extended reality (XR) platforms, such as augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR). These 3D digital reproductions of musical performances are captured live and are enhanced to deliver cutting-edge audiovisual entertainment. However, the precise impact of VV in music video entertainment is still in a state of flux.