Virtual Play in Free-Viewpoint Video: Reinterpreting Samuel Beckett for Virtual Reality

O’Dwyer, Néill; Johnson, Nicholas; Bates, Enda; Pagés, Rafael; Ondřej, Jan; Amplianitis, Konstantinos; Monaghan, David; Smolić, Aljoša

doi:10.1109/ismar-adjunct.2017.87

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“…The sequence of the actors speaking is determined by a moving spotlight, which Beckett calls the 'inquisitor' [12] "they speak when the light is on them, and fall silent when the light is off" [13]. "Play is a game of interaction between the light operator and the actor, mediated by light technology" [14]. In the theatre, the audience passively observe the interaction; but, "in our VR version we acknowledge the role of the user as active; we recognise new opportunities for narrative and give the power of activation over to the end user, whose gaze becomes the spotlight.…”

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Volumetric Video Content Creation for Immersive XR Experiences

Smolić¹,

Amplianitis²,

Moynihan³

et al. 2022

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Volumetric video (VV) is an emergent digital media that enables novel forms of interaction and immersion within eXtended Reality (XR) applications. VV supports 3D representation of real-world scenes and objects to be visualized from any viewpoint or viewing direction; an interaction paradigm that is commonly seen in computer games. This allows for instance to bring real people into XR. Based on this innovative media format, it is possible to design new forms of immersive and interactive experiences that can be visualized via head-mounted displays (HMDs) in virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR). This paper highlights technology for VV content creation developed by the V-SENSE lab and the startup company Volograms. It further showcases a variety of creative experiments applying VV for immersive storytelling in XR.

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Section: Mr Play -After Samuel Beckettmentioning

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Volumetric Video Content Creation for Immersive XR Experiences

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Amplianitis²,

Moynihan³

et al. 2022

lim

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“…However, we asked what it means to be "lost" in digital culture: "If this is a digital purgatory, rather than a literal post-burial encounter, would it not be the curated, youthful, pure faces reflecting idealised and performed memories, not unlike the Facebook pages of the dead?" [10] The jitter and flickering in their faces during playback compounds this found-footage aesthetic, an aspect that we chose to keep rather than tidy into a smooth, photorealistic, sterile pallor.…”

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“…15 O'Dwyer et al [10] p. 263. 16 Beckett opens the sequence to "variation" on the repeat, but in the theater this is a choice for the director, not the audience.…”

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Samuel Beckett in Virtual Reality: Exploring Narrative Using Free Viewpoint Video

O’Dwyer

Johnson²,

Bates³

et al. 2021

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This article describes an investigation of interactive narrative in virtual reality (VR) through Samuel Beckett's theatrical text Play. Actors are captured in a green screen environment using free-viewpoint video (FVV). Built in a game engine, the scene is complete with binaural spatial audio and six degrees of freedom of movement. The project explores how ludic qualities in the original text elicit the conversational and interactive specificities of the digital medium. The work affirms potential for interactive narrative in VR, opens new experiences of the text and highlights the reorganization of the author-audience dynamic.

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“…Before defining a camera, it needs its position in the world space, the direction of observation, a vector pointing to its right side and a vector pointing to its upper side. This actually creates three mutually perpendicular coordinate systems with the camera's position as the origin, which is called the camera's observation space [22]- [24].…”

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Embedded GPU 3D Panoramic Viewing System Based on Virtual Camera Roaming 3D Environment

Meng

Yuan

et al. 2019

IEEE Access

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The traditional 2D panoramic view has the problem of small imaging range, low utilization of original image and serious stretching of the foreground. This paper designs a 3D panoramic viewing system. The real-time performance of the panoramic system requires a large number of parallel image transformations. The general-purpose processor CPU is incapable. This paper designs an embedded GPU solution. The core computing module is based on NXP's i.MX6Q application processor and builds an embedded Linux system. Using V4L2 to capture images to reduce memory and CPU usage, and use OpenGL ES shaders to process image transformations in parallel at high speed. Because it is in a 3D environment, it is impossible to cover all images through a still viewpoint like a 2D look-around. In order to roam the 3D scene, this paper proposes to design a virtual camera system. Using the virtual camera to roam the 3D environment, realize the virtual viewpoint in the 3D scene, traverse each scene in the grid, eliminate the dead angle of the field of view, and finally realize the 3D panoramic view, and verified on the embedded hardware platform, which can clearly roam every image on the surface. And recorded the video of 3-D looping. Experiments show that the 3D panoramic viewing system proposed in this paper has excellent performance and good effects. It has a good real-time performance on the image display, and the response speed is increased by 5%. The main operation is undertaken by the GPU and only takes a small number of CPU resources. The proposed virtual camera system can better realize the 3D panoramic view.INDEX TERMS Embedded GPU, Linux, OpenGL ES, virtual camera, 3D panoramic view.

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Virtual Play in Free-Viewpoint Video: Reinterpreting Samuel Beckett for Virtual Reality

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Volumetric Video Content Creation for Immersive XR Experiences

Volumetric Video Content Creation for Immersive XR Experiences

Samuel Beckett in Virtual Reality: Exploring Narrative Using Free Viewpoint Video

Embedded GPU 3D Panoramic Viewing System Based on Virtual Camera Roaming 3D Environment

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