5G Is Coming: So What Does This Mean for Music (If Anything)?
One quick possibility is that higher-fidelity streams can be consumed more readily, and production collaboration could be catapulted. Another impacts the live experience: with a 5G connection, companies like BASE Hologram, which has produced hologram shows featuring Amy Winehouse, Roy Orbison, and Maria Callas, could upgrade these experiences and bring them to broader audiences.
The advent of 5G could also impact VR/AR concerts, with immersive experiences suddenly more realistic and realtime. But even without VR, performance collaborations in realtime could become strikingly like the real thing. Here’s one 5G-distributed music concert experiment involving performers from separate locations.
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