Brian May interview with Classic Rock Magazine
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00:05 All my life I've been taking stereo pictures.
00:07 All through the Queen experience, I was taking
00:09 pictures of us off stage and giving the camera to people to
00:12 take pictures of us on stage.
00:14 I have a great collection.
00:15 And I made this so that I could share it
00:17 with everyone else.
00:18 When virtual reality started to be talked about, I realized
00:21 that this was the perfect instrument to see it, because
00:24 this is optically a lot better than most of these virtual
00:27 reality machines that you'll find.
00:30 It's based on sound Victorian technology.
00:32 It's a return to this kind of intimate experience, the
00:35 parlor experience, if you like.
00:36 What you can see is a whole universe.
00:38 And I think the point may come where people never
00:40 want to come out.
00:41 I've been dreaming of doing this most of my life, being
00:44 able to share 3D instantly with people everywhere.
00:46 We had a VR rig with UMPTEAM GoPros on a four-point
00:52 suspension in the arena in Barcelona in front of, I don't
00:56 know, 20,000 people or whatever.
00:57 And we were able to guide it around.
01:00 And so when you see this back in your owl or your Google
01:04 Cardboard or your Oculus Rift, it'll feel like you're in a
01:07 spaceship and you're in that arena watching us or watching
01:10 the audience you can look all around.
01:12 And you'll zoom up, and you'll be able to come on stage with
01:14 us and experience what it looks like to us.
01:17 I was thinking the other day, wouldn't it have been nice if
01:20 we could have done this, filmed when we had Freddie
01:23 around?
01:26 I have lots of 3D pictures of Freddie.
01:28 And it's incredible how lifelike he looks.
01:30 He looks so young and powerful and fit, which he was.
01:34 And people go, wow, I feel like I could touch him and
01:37 talk to him.
01:37 And we looked very seriously at this kind of holographic
01:41 image of Freddie to be with us live.
01:45 But for various reasons, we thought it wasn't right.
01:47 Because we tend to be very human-based and not
01:50 technologically-based in the way we perform.
01:53 We have him on screen.
01:54 And Freddie's part of our show.
01:57 But it's very obvious that that's the
01:59 way it's being done.
02:01 It's not a gimmick.
02:01 It's just a way of having him.
02:03 And we play to his piano playing as well, which is fun.
02:06 So we involve him in the way we play at the moment.
02:09 I'm not going to say never, because it could happen.
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