Big artists, that have gigs where tickets cost the best part of $100 (I'm UK based and I'm converting what we'd pay for big name artists gigs from GBP to USD) are saying they have 10X the demand of people wanting to see them than the stadiums can take....
...wow that sounds like an awesome problem to solve! Like play 10 dates, or if that is too tiring, maybe they could let a lot of people watch live on VR headsets for a much cheaper rate (like $10 or something) - I am always hearing the global number of Gear VR sales is large and getting larger and larger.
I understand this problem is different to normal computer problems, but I'm used to it being the case that you don't need to worry too much about scalability - because if you are in the position that you do, you should have the resources to be able to find a nice way to solve it!
Maybe some sort of bitcoin/blockchain + verifiable ID, so on the door you can prove:
1. You are the person who paid the ticket
2. The price you paid for the ticket, is the price on the ticket
I really don't see the point of a live concert VR. The experience will be completely different. Releasing a well recorded and edited version once per tour makes much more sense to me.
The ticket problem needs to be solved but it won't when you have the biggest ticket sellers (Ticketmaster) owning marketplaces for second-hand tickets. I recently read one of these companies was buying tickets and then putting them on the secondary marketplace themselves at a huge markup.
As for booking extra shows - I don't know why this doesn't happen. Maybe they don't have the data? Much better for an artists brand if they sell out 2 nights than have 3 nights with none of them sold out.
NB: The biggest artists (selling out places like the O2 Arena in London for multiple nights) rarely charge over $60/£50 for general admission. The only people I see charging $100 are well established older acts (Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, etc.).
It isn't that I don't appreciate your point about a live VR concert being different, and right now if I simply put on a VR headset and was there (without any other tweaks at all) there would be a limit to how 'cool' it would be. That said, I'm a Radiohead fan, if they offered an option to go to a rare gig to see them play, in VR (either VR or nothing) I would certainly consider it. If you then said that VR technology is going to continue to improve, and I'll be able to sit there with my friends, watching the band, taking virtual photographcs of the band, optionally discussing the show with others, etc. maybe it starts to actually start getting quite interesting.
...wow that sounds like an awesome problem to solve! Like play 10 dates, or if that is too tiring, maybe they could let a lot of people watch live on VR headsets for a much cheaper rate (like $10 or something) - I am always hearing the global number of Gear VR sales is large and getting larger and larger.
I understand this problem is different to normal computer problems, but I'm used to it being the case that you don't need to worry too much about scalability - because if you are in the position that you do, you should have the resources to be able to find a nice way to solve it!
Maybe some sort of bitcoin/blockchain + verifiable ID, so on the door you can prove:
1. You are the person who paid the ticket 2. The price you paid for the ticket, is the price on the ticket