A Virtual Cinema with Moving Surround Sound
Using an Oculus Rift VR headset, the participant is seated in the audience at modern movie theater, listening to a surround sound system. As short movies play, the theater transforms, taking the participant on a brief journey through outer space.
The duration is 10 mins
This project began in October 2014 when DeepBlue, in collaboration with QUT staff & post grad students, received funding from QUT's Engagement and Innovation Grant to work in California with local organisations, the community at large and Cal Poly students from the Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies program (LAES). Through a series of brainstorming workshops with LAES students and members of DeepBlue, the creative process began. The results of this collaborations is a virtual reality cinema experience that will eventually take players/users on a trip through the history of cinema and cinematic sound, traveling upon a "river" of sound. This is a work in progress, with the collaboration ongoing between QUT, CalPoly, DeepBlue & DTS.
This project is the very first stages of a VR cinema experience that will eventually take the player/user through the history of cinema and cinematic sound, traveling upon a "river" of sound. When complete in late 2017, the experience will allow for a type of synesthesia effect to overcome the player/user, who will see sound dripping out of the speakers, filling the theater with liquid sound that splits the movie screen open. The player/user washes into the screen, carried along upon a river of sound, tumbling through the history of cinema from silent B&W, to sound, to color, to technicolor, to 70s style American cinema, to 3D sci-fi, and the future of cinema.
Discovering new ways to use sound in a virtual reality experience.
The Cal Poly Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies program is working with the American cinema sound company, DTS, and students and faculty in Creative Industries at QUT to develop and test the next generation of interactive cinematic sound technologies.
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