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One of the great value props of your app for me, a pianist who can read sheet music, is simply being able to do so in a VR space, in any environment of my choosing. I recently began streaming myself playing piano on TikTok, and could imagine VR taking my piano content creation videos to the next level. For example, I'd like to bring my own avatar into VRtuos, and customize my scene in the app, then set up a VR camera and record myself in the VR space so that it's my 3D avatar playing the VRtuos piano in a beautiful VR scene (like they do with the beat saber mixed reality capture using LIV). 

I've been playing piano for many years, but was never classically trained and can't play by ear, so reading sheet music is the only way I can learn new songs. Like I mentioned, it would just take weeks for me to try and memorize the beat saber map-esque set of MIDI notes whereas I can pick up almost any song via sheet music in 5-10 hours, and could speed this up with practice. If your goal is to educate people to play piano, I truly believe teaching them to read sheet music is the solution. 

There are definitely creative ways to incorporate VR to enhance the sheet music "sight-reading" experience. One idea off the top of my head is while the piano is playing back the song, lighting up the notes as they're being played, not necessarily having the notes drop down from the sky (which makes sense and is natural for MIDI clips). but even just simply being able to produce pdf sheets that behave like paper and sit in front of me while i am inside VRtuos, would be more than enough for someone like me, because this is how i've done it in the real world for so many years. It just feels natural and I assume it'll be there, and then when I don't have the sheet music and can't bring it in, almost feels like I'm being restricted, or one of my real world freedoms has been taken away in VR (not to sound too dramatic, but i believe its important philosophy for any VR experience).

I'm writing this freehand so its a little disorganized. Love talking about VR, am learning how to develop VR experiences myself. Will definitely join your discord!