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Harmonix’s SingSpace could unlock the joy and horror of VR karaoke

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Karaoke is an inherently social activity, full of both joy and trepidation. The same holds true in virtual reality, based on my experience with Harmonix Music Systems‘ SingSpace karaoke app for the Samsung Gear VR.

I tried out the SingSpace app with a great deal of embarrassment at the recent Oculus Connect event, along with my colleague Giancarlo Valdes. We sat side by side, singing in different virtual spaces but sharing our pre-song jitters as we began. The VR game is an experiment with how VR can be a social experience and how that social feeling can be different from real-life karaoke.

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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.