October 3-8, 2017
"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, Holojam Inc. The result is a new form of shared experience, combining the immediacy of live theater with the magical possibilities of shared virtual reality.
Credits
Director - David Gochfeld
Technical Director - Sebastian Herscher
Sound Design - David Shinn, Marta Olko
Sound Assistants - Eli Kuli, Juan Giordano
Dramaturgy - Andrew Lazarow
Narrative Design - Stephanie Riggs
Original Concept - Clara Fernandez Vara
Production Designer - Kris Layng
Assistant Designer - Longkun Yang
Creative Advisor - Carol Silverman
3D Modelers - Longkun Yang, Sonia Foltarz
Backstage Coordinator - Corrine Brenner
Videographers - JP Sarmiento, Ben Kanegson
Actors
Brian Bolles, Brian Alford, William Sturdivant, Lulu Ward, Kate Smith,
Juliet Brett
Production Manager - David Gochfeld
Associate Producer -Marcus Guimaraes
Producer - Jocelyn Scheirer
Executive Producer - Ken Perlin
Special thanks to
Lisa Flanagan, Dario LaVerde HTC VIVE, Jess Bass and David Klein at FoST, Jeff Hicks, Michael Gold, Thomas Meduri, the Future Reality Lab at NYU
With support from
Holojam Inc.
