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From Director Olivier Asselin comes City of Ghosts, a one-of-a-kind interactive, 360-degree augmented reality theatre experience that is bringing to light the possibilities of technology on the stage. As part of the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, the piece is playing at House of VR (639 Queen St W) September 15-17, 10am-7pm daily.
With a 1.5 million dollar budget, City of Ghosts is the largest scale AR theatre piece to date. Coming from CieAR in Montreal, City of Ghosts meshes theatre, characters and plot lines with augmented reality technology to create a futuristic piece that is paving the way for innovation in the theatre world. Shot and scripted with live actors, the piece is a motion capture project with life sized performances.
City of Ghosts, allows users equipped with a smartphone, tablet or AR glasses to interact freely in real space with life-size 3D virtual characters and invites visitors to make a journey through time to relive a story of love, death, ghosts and technology – all in glorious augmented 3D animation mixed with real places.
About FIVARS
FIVARS is a presentation of VRTO. The annual event seeks to change how the film industry and the content consuming public view what’s possible with VR technology. It is organized by Executive Director and Founder Keram Malicki-Sanchez and VRTO co-producer Jessy Blaze. FIVARS is produced by VRTO (Virtual Reality, Toronto) and Constant Change Media Group Inc. For more information, visit http://fivars.net. Or download the Android app at http://bit.ly/fivarsapp.
Photo: Scene from City of Ghosts.
2017-08-31
Toronto: FIVARS brings virtual reality theatre to Toronto September 15-17 with "City of Ghosts"