Live and Life in Virtual Theatre: Adapting traditional theatre processes to engage creatives in digital immersive technologies

The Round is an augmented reality platform that allows users at home to watch live streamed 3D characters being produced by real actors in a motion capture suite. The project holds the idea of “liveness” high regard and considers it important part theatrical experience needed be preserved creation at-home, digital experience. theatre itself often enormously technical with pre-recorded visual audio experiences are designed repeated. We ask question, what how does this map experiences, particularly involving capture? Whilst liveness, context, refers audience their relationship performer, there another aspect affects process creating designing piece theatre. ability affect determine results from “live” changes ideas on stage design team became iteration production itself. This traditional making which doesn’t easily into limitations immersive content creation. however attempted rectify introducing innovative technologies allowed existing control systems skills used run them operate Unreal Engine 4 game engine, for show. By retaining equipment skills, entire who were all new delivering virtual medium, able adapt practices approach communication order maintain fast effective collaboration within entirely medium. paper looks first prototype effect using processes combination real-time platforms trying model. understand role subject will discussed point view necessity or without “life” medium watching.