One show. Two realities. Live at once.
Four times, Failed To Render put a stand-up show on a real Las Vegas stage and inside the VR club at the same moment: comics in headsets on the live stage, the virtual crowd on monitors in the room, and a Proto hologram box beaming avatars onto the stage beside them.
What a hybrid comedy show is
A hybrid show is one performance running in two rooms at once. In Las Vegas that meant a physical stage with a paying crowd, and the Failed To Render Club in VRChat with a virtual crowd, joined together live. Comics on the real stage wore headsets so they could see and hear the VR audience; the VR crowd was projected on monitors in the venue; and a Proto hologram box on the stage beamed avatars from the virtual club into the room as life-size holograms, so a comic performing from a headset a thousand miles away stood beside a comic performing in person.
Nobody had done it before. KTNV Channel 13 Las Vegas put it on the evening news, Between Realities filmed it, and VRScout and The Washington Post wrote it up.
Who worked both rooms
Bret Ernst (Cobra Kai), Kyle Render, Big Al Gonzales, Steven Briggs, Billy Anderson hosting his Gateway Show, Tommy Sinbazo, Cory Showtime and Drew Marks all performed to both crowds at once.
Why it matters
Comedy clubs are limited by the room. A hybrid show is not: a 100-seat venue becomes a 100-seat venue plus everyone in the world with a headset or a gaming PC, and the two crowds feed each other. For a venue it is a second ticket without a second stage. For a touring comic it is a way to be in two cities on the same night. For the audience in VR it is the closest thing to sitting in a real club without leaving the house.
Book a hybrid night
We bring the VR side, the stream, the group instance and the production know-how; the venue brings the stage and the crowd. If you run a room, a festival or a corporate event and want to try it, use the booking form and tell us about the space. Watch the KTNV story to see what it looked like from the seats.