Radiohead Kid A MNESIA Exhibition: Immersion and audio download

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Radiohead have done something pretty unique. They released a free exhibition packaged as a game or download. Essentially you can walk around in the digital world of Kid A and Amnesiac while listening to stems from those albums. As you would expect, the audio has been extracted and can be downloaded (with some effort). The app download itself is 10 gigs and takes some time. PC/Mac/PS5.
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Radiohead have done something pretty unique. They released a free exhibition packaged as a game or download. Essentially you can walk around in the digital world of Kid A and Amnesiac while listening to stems from those albums. As you would expect, the audio has been extracted and can be downloaded (with some effort). The app download itself is 10 gigs and takes some time. PC/Mac/PS5.
Links:
Trailer:


Thanks for starting a dedicated thread about this, @popshop. @AshBuchanan reported on it a few days ago, but since his dispatch (and the ensuing discussion) was hidden inside another thread, I think a lot of people missed it.

Because I had to install the "game" on a computer not connected to my AVR, I haven't been able to experience it in its full surroundi-ness. But it's still incredibly cool. Here are two reviews:
https://www.theverge.com/22788135/radiohead-kid-a-mnesia-exhibition-reviewhttps://www.polygon.com/22792342/radiohead-kid-a-mnesia-exhibition-not-a-game
 
Indeed I missed the post from @AshBuchanan and the discussion. Sorry gents.
@alansanchez86 I also got a little lost there. I downloaded the epic games launcher and then the actual game download took an hour or more because of the size. Agreed it wasn't very intuitive to have to pretend to pay for a free download.
The reddit post has more info on the audio.
 
Bumping this for this near behind the scenes article over on the Unreal Engine site (Epic Games, owner of Unreal Engine funded it, partially as an ad). It goes a bit into the weeds on the graphical end more than audio, but the first half, and a bit near the end are all audio talk:

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/...usive-look-at-radiohead-s-new-virtual-exhibit
I myself don’t have a PS5, but I did stream it to my TV via Steam Link on the Apple TV (you have to add the .exe to steam as a “Non-Steam Game), which streams over 5.1, and can confirm the game is very surroundy.
 
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