The Making of an Immersical®
Event details
Live musical theatre performance in Web-based VR is a rapidly growing field of digitally produced entertainment that sits at the convergence of immersive theatre, interactive film, narrative games design and virtual production, using games engine technology.
Our team from Digital Creativity Labs at York is currently creating a series of short-form prototypical virtual immersicals (immersive musicals) specifically written, designed and built for easy access via browser-based VR platforms. In this talk by Daniel Lock and Mary Stewart-David, you will be invited to leave the comfort of your zoom room to explore the immersive setting of some of our shows, in the free web-vr platform FrameVR.
More information can be found on the Music Computing and Psychology Lab website.
Daniel Lock (Scenographer & programmer) and Mary Stewart-David (Writer & lyricist)
Daniel Lock is an XR specialist and academic blending the lines between theatre and Virtual Reality. With an interdisciplinary background in creative technology, theatre and film, his current research focuses on investigating how Virtual Reality developers may make use of theatrical methodology to enhance storytelling, virtual environments and player experience. Daniel holds a Master of Science and is currently undertaking his PhD as a researcher with Digital Creativity Labs and the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York.
Mary Stewart-David is the creative force behind the Immersical®, an innovative system of narrative design and construction for multi-modal musicals staged in interactive and immersive spaces. Currently she is a PhD researcher with Digital Creativity Labs, University of York, looking at writing and producing new works of virtual musical theatre in the metaverse, and in collaboration with Audio Lab at York, investigating new ways of reducing audio latency to enable and enhance live musical performance across networks.