The issue for me would be less to do with the convenience or otherwise of getting to the event. The fact that a live event can be hard to get to, or relatively expensive, is usually held up as a negative, but many people I think would see it as a treat, to be planned for and saved up for. The question for me is to what extent an immersive environment could offer either an equivalent experience for the spectator/consumer in terms of ‘liveness’ (given that there is no actual direct contact between human beings taking place), or an alternative experience for the spectator/consumer that might be considered equally meaningful on other terms. At this stage I don’t know the answer, but I’m very interested to hear views on the subject.
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Until the concept and use of the Virtual Spaces gains wide adoption a physical real world event to publicize this fact seems inevitable. We will be conducting Studio and road-show to promote the AAL solution throughout the EU. It will happen; the question is when!