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Holojam In Wonderland

Content type
Creative Work
Author
David Gochfeld
Year
URL
Holojam In Wonderland
Language
English
Publication Type
Published on the Web (virtual world)
License
All Rights reserved
Record Status
Approved record
Tags
theater
AR
retell
Description (in English)

"Holojam in Wonderland" is the world's first ever collocated theater piece for multiple actors and multiple audience members to take place entirely in shared untethered Virtual Reality. All performers and audience members are physically in the same room, able to free to walk around in that room and touch each other, yet they all see each other as avatars in a shared virtual world.

The research that went into this project, led by Ph.D. students Connor DeFanti and Zhenyi He, included low latency multi-participant tracking, synchronization of computer graphics with immersive 3D audio, and VR / AR collocation technology from our lab's spin-off company, Holjam Inc. The result is a new form of shared experience, combining the immediacy of live theater with the magical possibilities of shared virtual reality.

Pull Quotes

All performers and audience members are physically in the same room, able to free to walk around in that room and touch each other, yet they all see each other as avatars in a shared virtual world.

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I've Died and Gone to Devon

Content type
Creative Work
Author
J. R. Carpenter
Year
URL
I've Died and Gone to Devon
Download URL
I've Died and Gone to Devon (Python)
Language
English
Publication Type
Presented at conference or festival
Published on the Web (individual site)
Platform/Software
Python
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
Python
story generator
generator
narrative
story
arrival
first impression
re-purposed
retell
adapation
Description (in English)

I've Died and Gone to Devon re-purposes a Python script by Nick Montfort to tell (and retell) the story of an arrival and first impression of Devon. Most of the sentences in this story were adapted from Twitter posts written during a five-week visit to Devon, August - September, 2009.

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GENERATION[S]
Pull Quotes

I've died and gone to Devon. In North America, roads this narrow wouldn't even count as driveways. If this is the wrong side of the road, I don't care what's right. If this is the driveway, then I can't wait to see the house. We can't hear the river from the house, but we can see it. Everybody insists we're by the seaside. I can smell but not see the sea. Flotsam on a tidal river is a strange mixture of oak leaves and seaweed. This is an achingly beautiful place to come across a little death.

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Technical notes

To view the Python version, Download the file http://luckysoap.com/stories/Devon.zip to your desktop and unzip. On a Mac or Linux system, you can run the story generator by opening a Terminal Window, typing "cd Desktop", and typing "python filename.py". Hint: look for Terminal in your Utilities folder. On Windows, you will probably need to install Python first: version 2.6.5. Once Python is installed you can double click on the file and it will automatically launch and run in the terminal window. Every time you press ENTER a new version of the story will appear.

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