Hands-on with Harmonix’s crazy PlayStation VR game

Harmonix Music Systems has created a Harmonix Music VR app as an exclusive for the Sony PlayStation VR virtual reality headset arriving this October. It’s something that hippies would love as it’s a psychedelic trip set to the tune of your favorite music. Yes, it might be possible for your VR headset to give you a transcendental experience.

We recently played a demo of the app — which runs on a game console but can’t really be called a game — for a hands-on experience. It was kind of groovy, just like the old music visualizers were on the original Xbox game console. (Yes, we’re old enough to remember that.) It is pretty clear that crazy and weird visuals are even more crazy and weird when you’re viewing the on a VR headset.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.