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Brian May interview with Classic Rock Magazine

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00:00All my life I've been taking stereo pictures, all through the Queen experience I was taking

00:09pictures of us off stage and giving the camera to people to take pictures of us on stage.

00:13I have a great collection.

00:15And I made this so that I could share it with everyone else.

00:19When virtual reality started to be talked about, I realized that this was the perfect

00:22instrument to see it because this is optically a lot better than most of these virtual reality

00:28machines that you'll find.

00:30It's based on sound Victorian technology.

00:33It's a return to this kind of intimate experience, the parlor experience if you like.

00:36What you can see is a whole universe and I think the point may come where people never

00:40want to come out.

00:41I've been dreaming of doing this most of my life, you know, being able to share 3D instantly

00:45with people everywhere.

00:46We had a VR rig with umpteen GoPros on a four point suspension in the arena in Barcelona

00:54in front of I don't know 20,000 people or whatever.

00:58And we were able to guide it around.

01:01And so when you see this back in your owl or your Google Cardboard or your Oculus Rift,

01:06it'll feel like you're in a spaceship and you're in that arena watching us or watching

01:10the audience you can look all around.

01:12And you'll zoom up and you'll be able to come on stage with us and experience what it looks

01:16like to us.

01:17I was thinking the other day, wouldn't it have been nice if we could have done this,

01:21you know, filmed when we had Freddie around.

01:26I have lots of 3D pictures of Freddie and it's incredible how lifelike he looks.

01:30You know, he looks so young and powerful and fit, which he was.

01:34And people go, wow, I feel like I could touch him and talk to him.

01:37And we looked very seriously at this kind of holographic image of Freddie to be with

01:44us live.

01:45But for various reasons, we thought it wasn't right because we tend to be very human based

01:49and not technologically based in the way we perform.

01:53We have him on screen and Freddie is part of our show, but it's very obvious that that's

01:59the way it's being done.

02:01It's not a gimmick, it's just a way of having him.

02:03And we play to his piano playing as well, which is fun.

02:06So we involve him in the way we play at the moment.

02:09I'm not going to say never because it could happen, you know.