The Duran Duran Concert Experience: Live in 360 Degrees 
Duran Duran's March 2001 "Close Up" tour concert in Anaheim, California featured the first fully immersive video and audio recording of a live rock concert.   Specialized cameras and microphones were used to create an audio visual experience that surrounds the viewer in 360 degrees. The excitement of a Duran Duran live concert can now be experienced on the web through these 360 degree images, interactive stills, panoramic movies, and audio clips. 

This experimental recording was produced by Jarrell Pair and a team led by Dr. Skip Rizzo, Dr. Chris Kyriakakis, Tom Pintaric, and Dr. Ulrich Neumann of the University of Southern California's Integrated Media Systems Center with assistance from the touring crew.  Detailed information on the advanced, unique technology used to make this recording can be found here. 

360 Degree Panoramic Images

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Interactive Panoramas

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360 Degree Panoramic Video

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Audio Clips

Note: These clips have been re-mixed from the original 360 degree source recording for playback on standard speaker systems.

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The Technology: Immersivision

Above: Researcher Tom Pintaric experiences Duran Duran in a special immersive head set.

Researchers at the University of Southern California's Integrated Media Systems Center are developing a system called "Immersivision" which can surround a person in 360 degrees of interactive audio-visual media using DVD players, or game consoles such as the Sony Playstation 2, or the Microsoft XBOX.

Immersivision can use special headsets which track the movement of a person's head.  This tracking allows viewers to experience video from any angle (0-360 degrees) by simply turning their heads.  In the next few years, immersive 360 degree video and audio will emerge as a new entertainment medium, and this experimental recording of Duran Duran in concert will represent an historic milestone in the medium's development.