Medium Projects

Avatars for Toasterlab team members gathered in a virtual play yard in AltSpace at PXR2020

Produced by Single Thread Theatre Co. in association with Electric Company Theatre

Presented Oct 2, 3, 9, 10, 2020 AltSpace VR

Content Types:
 - Chat room
 - Google Drive folders and docs
 - VR app
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - AltSpaceVR
 - Google Drive
 - HowlRound.tv
 - Jotform
 - Occulus Go
 - Trello
 - Unity (game engine)
 - VR headset
Audience Experience:
 - Chat room interaction
 - Community engagement
 - Streaming Video
 - Virtual Conference
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Conference Presentation

Summary of Project:

Virtual Reality Symposium for Canadian artists and XR technologists, exploring creation and performance in XR.

A monitor shows video of a scene while creative professionals work on set for The Right Way in the background.

Creator and Director: Daniele Bartolini, Produced by Daniele Bartolini, DopoLavor Teatrale (DLT), Stazione Utopia

Presented Sep 15 - 21, 2020 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - 180 camera
 - CleanBox
 - Expo Player
 - Occulus Go
 - VR headset
Audience Experience:
 - One to one performance
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Single audience immersive theatre experience with a VR prelude.

Screen shot of a 360 video bubble. There is a prominent tree and the photographers head visible against the blue background from the sky.

STEPS (Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space)

Presented Summer 2020 Rowntree Mills Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Photographs
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Locative media map of 360 video/audio content sourced from community engagement.

A technician wears a VR headset with reflective lenses while looking at a mobile device. The reflection of the device is visible on the visor forming a video loop.

Theatre Passe Muraille with Toasterlab and Cohort

Presented Sep 2020 Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Pass-through video in VR headset
Technologies:
 - Cohort Bridge
 - iOS Mobile
 - Qlab
Audience Experience:
Development Stage:
 - Workshop

Summary of Project:

This workshop explored ways to improve access to ASL interpretation & translation during live performances through the use of digital technologies …

Two people in white painters overalls stand in front of a paint splattered wall.

Creator and Director: Daniele Bartolini, Produced by Daniele Bartolini, DopoLavor Teatrale (DLT), Instituto Italiano di Cultura

Presented Sep 18 - 29, 2019 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - VR headset
Audience Experience:
 - One to one performance
 - Promenade performance outdoors
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An urban immersive format designed for one audience member at a time to interact with characters hidden among the pedestrians in the downtown core and installations including dance, music, and painting.

CGI John Bull head appears on a projections screen behind actors playing other characters in Oh, What a Lovely War!

Directed by Autumn Smith at Hart House Theatre, original script by Joan Littlewood and The Theatre Workshop

Presented Feb 28 - Mar 7, 2020 at Hart House Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - Computer generated imagery
 - Motion capture animation (mo-cap)
 - Projected video
Technologies:
 - Character Creator by Reallusion
 - iClone
 - Live Capture on iPhone
 - WatchOut
Audience Experience:
 - Fixed seating
 - Proscenium stage
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Traditional theatrical presentation of a licensed script with a motion capture animation as a key character.

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