Tres Lunas, stylized as Tr3s Lunas, is the 21st studio album by English musician and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released in June 2002 by Warner Music Spain. After his previous album The Millennium Bell (1999), Oldfield started work on his first release for MusicVR, a musical virtual reality project with simulator video game elements and music.^[2] The idea developed to have the Tres Lunas MusicVR feature included as part of an album package, for which Oldfield wrote and recorded new music and signed with Warner Music Spain.^[3] Tres Lunas saw Oldfield explore electronic and chill-out music.

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Tres Lunas
Studio album by Mike Oldfield
Released	3 June 2002 (2002-06-03)
Recorded	Oldfield's home studio at Roughwood Croft, Chalfont St. Giles and Plan 1 Studios, Munich
Genre	Chill-out, new-age[1]
Length	58:19
Label	Warner Music Spain
Producer	Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield chronology
The Millennium Bell (1999) Tres Lunas (2002) Tubular Bells 2003 (2003)
Singles from Tres Lunas
"To Be Free" Released: 20 May 2002 "Thou Art in Heaven" Released: 26 August 2002

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Tres Lunas was the vehicle for Oldfield's first publicly released MusicVR game. It was followed by Maestro. Some of the music from the Tres Lunas game eventually ended up on Oldfield's Light + Shade album.

Oldfield had been working on the idea of melding virtual reality and music throughout the 1990s. Oldfield worked with 3D graphics programmer Colin Dooley and graphic artist Nick Catcheside.^[5] The Newlook and Modelworks software packages were used in the creation of the game.^[6] Modelworks was used to create the 3D models and Newlook is the game engine, level editor and music sequencer used to create the final game. Both software packages were written by Colin Dooley with Newlook being created specifically for the Music VR project.

2002 saw the release of Oldfield's first new album of the Millennium, entitled Tres Lunas. This was also the first publicly released MusicVR game, also titled Tres Lunas. A demo version of the game came on a second CD packaged with the album, with the full version available for purchase from Oldfield's website. The game has since become available for free. The game featured segments of music from the album Tres Lunas, along with specially composed music. In the game you can fly around the world, collecting a maximum of 7 gold rings, which change the music which you hear. You can also study or manipulate many objects, with various consequences.

By the time of the first release, Oldfield had also expressed the desire for people to share their game with others, and thus the game became a multiplayer game, with people connecting to the game world via the Internet. Each person could have their own avatar, which they would use to fly around the virtual worlds. A maximum of 13 avatars can be in use at any one time, with others being observers, all having the ability to chat. Oldfield would log in from time to time in order to chat with his fans live. Oldfield was interviewed about the game and his faith on The Heaven and Earth Show on BBC One.^[7]

1. "Misty" – 3:59
2. "No Mans Land" – 6:08
3. "Return to the Origin" – 4:38
4. "Landfall" – 2:19
5. "Viper" – 4:32
6. "Turtle Island" – 3:40
7. "To Be Free" – 4:21
8. "Fire Fly" – 3:46
9. "Tr3s Lunas" – 4:35
10. "Daydream" – 2:15
11. "Thou Art in Heaven" – 5:22
12. "Sirius" – 5:47
13. "No Mans Land" (Reprise) – 2:56
14. "To Be Free" (Radio edit) (Bonus track) – 3:56

• Mike Oldfield
• Sally Oldfield – Spoken voice
• Jude Sim – Vocals on "To Be Free"
• Amar – Vocals
• Ben Darlow – Assistant engineer
• Philip Lewis – Percussion programming (assistant at Plan 1)
• Thomas Süssmair – Percussion programming (assistant at Plan 1)