Investigating full body interactions within public spaces for XR exhibition - XR Network+

This project explored multiple body motion capture for exhibition purposes. It was funded by XR Network+ and was a collaboration between Teesside University and artists Ellie Land, Lucy Wheeler and Lorent Rezari. The aims were to investigate interactive and experience design for a real-time immersive installation. The collaboration formed part of a wider project that is developing an interactive art experience to explore North Shield’s fishing heritage through immersive storytelling. The challenge was to use consumer technology such, as a depth sensor camera and the NUItrack AI motion capture solution, rather than idustry-standard motion capture sensors and suits. The resulting outcome developed a prototype performative experience that applies digital particle design, made using Unreal Engine, merged with digitally drawn animation in an immersive environment that hosts the multiple motion capture-powered avatars that are driven by an audience's embodied movement which is subsequently displayed back to them in real time.

This project researched developing a prototype immersive environment that hosts multiple avatars that are powered by consumer motion capture technology (depth sensor camera) and AI (NUItrack) for an interactive performance art installation called Glacies that explores North Shield’s fishing heritage through immersive storytelling.