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Latest Developments / Looking Ahead April 7

Checkpoint 1

• Survey Said

– …

Come on, we can do better than that!

…

We got questions

• Maya SDK

– Marla’s looking into it.

• Lighting
• Backgrounds / Theatre model

– Depth maps?

• On-stage elements

Logistics

• Projector 2 has arrived

– And there was much rejoicing!

• So have the headphones.

– And there was even more rejoicing.

Plan for today

• Checkpoint 2 preview

– Monday, April 19th

• Brainstorm about performance issues

Checkpoint 2 Previews

…in alphabetical order

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Team CAVE

• Optimal BOR2 setup

– Projector positions – Furniture – Where will stage manager sit?

• Mockup of “stage manager view”

– Stats from audience – What’s up next? – Cue control (keyboard?)

Team FLOCK

• Basic emotions

– Happy – Sad – Frightened – Angry – Drunk – Neurotic

Team INFRASTRUCTURE

• Mockup of performance setup

– Machines in

• BOR2
• ICL6 – All audience members if possible.
• Classroom / auditorium

– Test clients on each sending / receiving events – Event recorder

• “Big Cowboy Hat Guy”?

Team MERRY MELODIES

• Music

– Basic emotions

• Happy
• Sad
• Frightened
• Angry
• Drunk
• Neurotic

– Preliminary Results. – Demo of music playing in “concert” with MUPPETS and sound effects

Team MERRY MELODIES

• Sound effects

– 3D Audio demo from MUPPETS on several machines in audience.

• WAV file is fine.
• Spatial audio each from its own aural perspective
• Distributed Music + spatial audio a plus

Team MUPPETS

• Demo of Maya model / animation displayed and

animated.

• Demo of 16 audience members viewing the same

world.

– In ICL6 + one classroom

• MUPPETS GUI
• Media Server

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Team VR

• Integration of all technologies

– Mockup of actor view

• Wearing the glove
• Wearing the FOB
• Wearing the tracker
• Seeing everything through the glasses.

Team Instructor

• Cue objects

– Integrated into MUPPETS – Demo of simple cues – Lighting cues if required.

• Questions?

Performance Logistics

• Physical Setup

– Audience

• ICL6
• Auditorium/classroom – overflow

– MUPPETS + audio

– Stage Manager

• BOR2 or empty classroom

– Actor

• BOR2 or empty classroom

Performance Logistics

• Brainstorming
• Looking for ideas
• Heads up for technical issues

Performance Logistics

• Audience view

– Preset + start

• curtain

– Staging

• does theatre façade stay the whole performance?
• Object vs Static Geometry

– Interactivity

• How will audience choose flower?

– Choose by what they look at. – Pop-up video

– Who to invite for VIP seating?

Performance Logistics

• Stage Manager view

– Has the “real control” over the performance – Audience response

• How will he/she view results
• Recommendation or mandate?

– Audio

• Should hear orchestra

– Cue control

• Keyboard or on-screen

– Casting call for stage manager

• producer…ISO control freak who…

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Performance Logistics

• Actor view

– Cues from stage manager

• Start of performance
• What’s coming up next…head tracker?

– How much physical space do we need? – Casting call for actor (Ryan K? others?)

• Training on VR equipment
• Direction by Walter Wolf

Performance Logistics

• Advertising

– Posters – Playbill – Web site (vtheatre.rit.edu) – We still don’t have a title!

Looking ahead to Monday

• Updates / status
• Questions?