Description

Created at NYU’s Media Research Lab for its Holojam platform, this Day of the Dead VR experience places you in a festive parade traveling down a crowded city street. Participants were strapped into a minimal motion capture suit and placed in a communal virtual space with a “pen” to draw in the air and play musical instruments.

Technology

Holojam is a hybrid physical/virtual platform for multi-user experiences. It is powered by Unity, GearVR and an Optitrack motion capture system with custom software to allow for untethered standing VR applications.

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Credits

• Principal Investigator Ken Perlin
• Art Direction / Experience Design David Lobser
• Production / Research Team Connor Defanti, Zach Cimafonte, Clare Carroll, Laura Juo-Hsin Chen, Sebastian Herscher, Will Field-Thompson, Daren Liu