Virtual Reality Live Theatre on No Budget
Virtual Reality Live Theatre on No Budget
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无预算的虚拟现实现场剧院
DOI：
10.1145/3450549.3464413
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2021
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Coulombe A
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Jettison 以及整个 OnBoardXR 音乐节都是使用开源 Mozilla Hubs 平台完全在虚拟现实中现场制作和表演的。这些表演在剧院的虚拟呈现中进行，利用现场戏剧表演的共同惯例来简化观众入场的挑战：了解如何在现实世界的剧院中表现，可以直观地转化为在虚拟剧院中的行为。与此同时，我们的制作过程模仿了现实世界的戏剧，在传统戏剧技巧和实践的应用方面非常相似——主要区别在于我们的演员和工作人员都是完全远程的。最后，Hubs 平台允许观众在 VR 头显、平板电脑和手机等一系列硬件上观看节目。总而言之，我们的流程代表了一种模型，通过该模型，独立剧院公司可以使用熟悉的技术和技能来创作作品，并将其呈现给没有专用硬件的分布式观众。我们的方法是利用最新的虚拟化技术来吸引尽可能广泛的受众，而这一切都只需要很少的制作预算。与其他虚拟或在线剧院的方法不同，Jettison 及其 OnBoardXR 的工作是尽可能地复制在现实世界剧院观看演出的体验——这是过去一年中无法获得的体验。在本次演讲中，我们将描述我们的过程和学习内容。
Jettison, along with the entire OnBoardXR festival, is produced and performed live entirely in virtual reality using the open-source Mozilla Hubs platform. These shows took place in a virtual representation of a theater, leveraging the shared conventions of live theatrical performance to simplify the challenge of onboarding the audience: knowing how to behave in a real world theater translates intuitively to behavior in a virtual theater. At the same time, our production process mimicked that of real world theater, with very close parallels in the application of traditional theatrical skills and practices – with the main difference being that our cast and crew were all fully remote. Finally, the Hubs platform allows audiences to view the show on a range of hardware from VR HMDs to tablets and phones. Put together, our process represents a model by which independent theater companies can create productions using familiar techniques and skills, and present it for distributed audiences who don't have dedicated hardware. Ours was an approach of utilizing the latest virtualization technology to allow access to the widest range of audience possible, all from a bare-bones production budget. Unlike other approaches to virtual or online theater, the work of Jettison and its OnBoardXR is an attempt to, as closely as possible, replicate the experience of attending a show in a real world theater – an experience unavailable over the past year. In this talk we will describe our process and learnings.