Spatial Storytelling / Mixed Reality Arts & Film by Ed Davis BIO

Deja-VR beta..

Akin to a lucid dream / spatial cinema experience

Developing for NOVA360 at VUW Engineering / Psychology Research - Immersive FPV Drone Experience

CRONE: A VR 3D180 film collab with Ken Spiteri, Liz Dalman & Friends...

Roomscale Prototype Merging 6DoF Environments

with lifesize holograms / performance capture

NZSD Contemporary & Lifesize Holograms at Docedge XR + NZGDC 2023

Bass Holo

Developing 3D Volume Capture in VR for live performance and playback

transcript of a chat with GPT-4

ATAMIRA presents

TOMO

! NZ Doc Edge (XR) Ak, Wellington May, June 2023 !

3D180 FILM

Choreographed & Directed by Gabrielle Thomas

Film by Ed Davis

Premiered at KAHA TRIPLE BOOST, Q THEATRE in JULY 2022
on 22 synced vr headsets

3D180 format = 2 fisheye views side by side (5k50p)
Filmed with Zcam K2-pro over 5 days at TAPAC, Auckland

+ Matriarchs Festival Canada Feb 2023

VR & Psych Research Collab with VUW

stills...

100+ Original 3d180 films at DeoVR

Someone Should Love You

Stills from Someone Should Love You

Jason Kerrison music, with Leigh Franklin

31 July 2022

behind the scenes mocap session at CoCA Massey University, Wellington
made with Unity

Had the great pleasure to meet & collab with next gen Pacifc Dance artists for this festival
(6 of the 7 short films in the program)

Losaline Tupou, Laifa Ta’ala, Anton Pulefale, Keesha King and Toa Paranihi and Brydie Colquhoun

Pacific Dance

MISSION TO MARS.. 2021-2023 still in development
A new immersive music video / space adventure + filmed in zero-g

zero-g and chill.. trip to Mars.. crank up the sounds

general maintenance, gardening, spacies, holodeck, self improvements,

fitness, crypto markets, news & weather from earth, old flames (6 months transmission lag)

situations will arise - no napping- make it to Mars or bust

Great Gig in VR

.. a tech-sploration of 3dVR and 6DoF scenarios

THE ATRIUM at the EXCHANGE on Allen St. FEB 2021

Dancers & live motion capture in VR worlds on LED Walls
Feb 12-19 at THE ATRIUM (in THE EXCHNGE, between Blair & Allen Street)

New Zealand School of Dance plays with a combination of Live Performance, LED Walls, and Game Engines in Holodeck. The culmination of these mediums is a series of short ensemble pieces exploring alternate realities
Get ready to ‘tech-splore’ the wonders of virtual production with NZSD Contemporary dancers and Lucidtripper
… these huge LED Walls are like standing in Star Trek's “Holodeck”

Year II NZSD Contemporary rulz

MIXED REALITY THEATRE

Merging dance, live motion capture, immersive storytelling with Unity, Xsens Link, Oculus Quest

BATS STAB LAB with Carrie Thiel

Aligning Quest and live motion capture with HTC Vive in VR

Developing multiplayer VR storytelling with live performance

NZSD Mocap and Response

Devise a duet, record 1 side, improvise in VR

Partnerings of NZSD Contemporary 1st Years

6DoF Scribbles in Tilt Brush

NZSD 6DoF Jam

Improvised duet with last years mocap

Available on Sidequest for Oculus Quest

NZSD + Virtual Production

Vive-tracked camera + Unity + 10m x 3m LED walls + live performance - montage of the process...

Virtual Production_NZSD_lucidtripper with Ed Davis on Vimeo.

bts images

merging motion tracked camera, virtual environments + live performance + LED walls

Local Landmark Photogrammetry >> 6DoF VR Experience

48 Hour Film Competition Lockdown 2020

film: YOU'RE WELCOME

The A.I. operating system on your smart phone has become self aware and has a wake up call for you

team: fake news & weather

genre: Whodunit

48hours.co.nz

Supa Cuba Dupa VR Gallery

...because COVID

Explore Potocki Gallery on your PC (beta) using ARROW KEYS and MOUSE

PC_VERSION

(WebGL HTML5 build from Unity) - enjoy! ps. find the easter eggs

MAC ? try it - 1st setup WebGL in Safari "settings"

ANDROID VERSION

hit OK when the warning comes up - webGL mostly works =)

Navigate with thumbs - left moves, right slide to turn

(WebGL HTML5 build from Unity hosted at Simmer.io) - enjoy!

QUEST VERSION

Download the .Apk from Itch.io & sideload it to your quest using Sidequest =)

Use thumb controllers to move / turn.. find the easter eggs ;)

vr development bts in Unity

3D180 Filmed Version

Catalogue and more info about the exhibition and artists

http://www.potockipaterson.co.nz

Panthalassa live VR VJ Session at Performance Arcade

Streamed wirelessly from Oculus Quest to Projector

Chinese New Year Luminous VR Dragon Dance Experience

6DoF Snowy Flying Dragons experience!... on Quest VR Headset...

Mixing the real and the virtual

you will be in a real studio and hear her presence - because she's there with you

There's a real world : a Dancers studio..

There's a parallel VR version (running in Unity 3D Game Engine)

There' a performer in both realms at once (Motion capture suit = cg puppeteering)

The viewer "VRP" enters the space... puts on a headset... is now in a digital version

All you see is virtual, all you hear and feel is real

6DoF = 6 Degrees of Freedom.. you are free to stand and move around if you like

Dance Me mixes reality with Game Engine and cinematic VR180 flashbacks

Featuring Laura Jones

Story and Concept by Carrie Thiel, VR by Ed Davis

VR photogrammetry and shader fx by Cory Bedwell

Tech mentor Jeff Jones (Wrestler), Unity code Luke Holden, Music by Chris Winter

Jason Kerrison Music Video

VR180 on youtube - best viewed in VR

more GalaVIP previews...

SUNSET - BATS 90s NOSTALGIA PARTY - DEC 14

VR REBOOTS of KIWI CLASSICS

Scenes from two 90s Kiwi Films re-constructed in VR

Walk around inside the scenes using a QUEST headset (7pm-9pm)

https://bats.co.nz/about-bats/festivals/sunset/ >>>>> free 12 hour party

The slapstick gore in Braindead is totally off the hook

BETWEEN VR WORLDS

at TERROR-FI FILM FEST Wgtn, Ak

31st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd from 7pm.. and 630pm Tuesday 6 Nov, before/after DR. SLEEP [The Shining themed VR]

+ Auckland Nov 7 - 10 NOV from 630pm, 5pm Sat, Sun

6DoF VR = Roomscale immersion = 5m x 5m open space + wireless Oculus QUEST

and - the other flavour "VR"... Cinematic 3D180 - a mood preview of a VR Horror Film / work in progress