Spafford Announces Virtual Reality Webcast From San Francisco

Tonight, Spafford will bring their fall tour to the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. If you can’t make it to the legendary venue to see the Arizona-based jam quartet in person, there’s an extremely cool way to follow the action from home or wherever you have an internet connection.

Spafford has teamed with Oculus and nugs.net to stream this evening’s concert from San Francisco in Virtual Reality. Tonight’s show will be broadcast for free in the Oculus Venues App in live virtual reality via Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go. Oculus’ Venues app allows users to co-watch live shows with their friends via social VR. In addition, Facebook 180 streams will be available on the band and nugs.net’s Facebook pages for those without VR enabled devices. The webcast is expected to start at 8:30 p.m. PT.

“Live music is multi-sensory and communal by definition,” said nugs.net Chief Marketing Officer and Strangefolk and Assembly Of Dust frontman Reid Genauer in a statement. “It strikes me as inevitable that a band like Spafford would be leading a new generation of bands into new social mediums. I applaud them as a musician and a member of the nugs.net team.”