ONE Night Video
Michael just sent over a video from our mixed reality collaboration with EZTV & Donna Sternberg & Dancers. TY!!
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Vanessa
ONE Night Pix
Monerda Skute (pink) & Trilby Minotaur (blue) VR dancing on the side of a building as LED illuminated dancers perform on the ground.
Oh wow! We never knew we were on! We waited from 8-11pm waiting for our cue, and were told a few times, You’re on in 5 minutes, but we thought we’d never been cued. Apparently, we were on! For about 1/2 hour they tell me. We never were cued to do Section 3, the most animated and live portion of the performance, but as you see here, Monerda, Trilby, Harmony & Scarlett were projected in gigantic splendor in the outdoor performance in Los Angeles celebrating the anniversary of EZTV.
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Monerda Skute
I apologize for duplicating my comments, just realized I wanted to say congrats here. Not enough caffeine yet 😀 “Michael, Van and fellow cast: It is so cool that your dance performance was a success and congrats about LA Weekly giving it Top 5 honors! We avatars had fun despite anxiously awaiting our cue 🙂 The projection photos look great and I can’t wait to see video. I bet the RL dancers were super!”
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Vanessa Blaylock
duplicate comments? Can you have too much of a good thing? 😀
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Vanessa Blaylock
Dear anyone reading – I’d love your thoughts!
The projection you see is avatars on a “white” background. Technically an SL “white” but not “full bright” white. I thought “full bright” might cause gamma issues with the on-site projector.
I thought about a Black background – this would have been cool in that instead of illuminating the whole side of the building, we’d only have avatars up there dancing. My fear was that the dancer’s bodies tend to roll into shadow, so with a black background you’d only get 2/3 of a body or so with the rest disappearing into shadow.
So, the white background felt, all things considered, aesthetically preferable.
What do you think?
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Scar
i think its pretty cool either way good job us!
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Vanessa Blaylock
Thanks again Scar! And Harm, Moni & Trilby! Haha, I didn’t realize we were on… but hey… you guys look great! 😀
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Christa Forster
I liked what Kate Johnson had to say today in the Mixed Berry Shake hangout: they both worked in different ways — the black background featured the dancers as floating on the surface; the white background highlighted the dancers beautifully.
Vanessa
Well the cameraperson just disappeared without a word…
Well… the cameraperson just disappeared without a word… so it would seem that we’re not going on…
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xtaforster
Oh, no! Want update soon….
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Michael Masucci
The event actually went very well! The audeince loved it and the city has asked us to make it an annual event if we’d like.
Turns out the delays in Fly By going on had to do with Donna’s costumer accidentally cutting the wire on one of the illuminayed costumes. This actually made time for the volunteer Jackie to arrive and set-up the SL laptop. She was very nervous and that may have translatted overseas to Van and her group.
I sent Van some images of her dancers both being projected 45′ wide to the audience as well as onto the aerial balloon which was not originally expected. But sincve the tech team was waiting for costumes to get fixed, they made additional switching sp that Van could swicth back from the balloon to the Library wall.
The event was named one of the 5 top dance picks for that weekend by the LA Weekly, in a townj where an awful lot of dance takes place each week.
Sorry if there was any confusion. I was stuck waiting in the wings to perfoam live music for Fly By, so was not in the loop, and Kate was dealing with re-programming the evening to keep the event running smoothly for the crowd while waiting for Donna to fix her outfilt.
The audience of course never suspected anything was ever wrong and everyone appreciated what went down.
Thanks Van!
P.S. now that this three-month long series oif evenst is over I plan to resume contributing to PBR.
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xtaforster
So happy it all worked out! When Van posted her comment above, I mused on how many things can “go wrong” or — more accurately — cause stress when technology is a component in performance, which is amazing, because performance is already stressful enough (but in a good way, of course). 🙂
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Monerda Skute
Michael, Van and fellow cast: It is so cool that your dance performance was a success and congrats about LA Weekly giving it Top 5 honors! We avatars had fun despite anxiously awaiting our cue 🙂 The projection photos look great and I can’t wait to see video. I bet the RL dancers were super!
Vanessa
OMG Still waiting to go on You can…
OMG Still waiting to go on!!!
You can cut the tension with a knife!!
Vanessa
ONE Night VR Costumes
Trilby, in the wardrobe, with ponytail, and optional stars
Our VR Costumer Trilby found some stars that can go with the wardrobe.
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xtaforster
So lovely!
Vanessa
ONE Night Costumes
ONE Night Costumes, front
Hi Trilby, here’s what the RL costumes are going to look like. They’re not completely done yet, and the dancer in turquoise doesn’t have her LED lights on, but you can get an idea of what they are like.
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xtaforster
Hello! Is there a portal for the virtual audience today/tonight? Break a leg!!
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Vanessa Blaylock
It appears that then don’t have any broadband internet at the venue and are doing it all by WiFi connection. They don’t think they have enough bandwidth to stream our avatars IN to the venue and also stream the event OUT on Ustream, so, sadly, neither you nor the VR dancers will be able to see what’s going on! 😛
However Michael does say they’ll record video of the event and have it online some days later.
Happy June!
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Ciara
Best of luck to the performers in both locations! I look forward to seeing Michael’s documentation.
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xtaforster
As do I!!
Vanessa
ONE Night – Projection
Photo by Nimbin Mardi Grasses
For the video feed TO your giant projector, it should definitely be a laptop running Second Life. This will be vastly higher quality than any sort of external live stream. For the video feed FROM ONE Night, it’s less critical for us, anything will let us see what’s going on and help cue. A better image is nice of course, and it’d let some remote viewers join in.
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Ciara Finnegan
Wow! This sounds like a really fantastic collaboration! I’m looking forward to 31st:-)
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Michael J Masucci
Thanks so much! Very helpful. I will share all this with the tech team and will get back to you next week with any questoins. We are so happy that you are going to be a BIG (pun intended) part of ONE Night and Fly-By.
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Vanessa Blaylock
Great Michael!
Just realized I made one mistake: the VR Cinematographer, can’t be the VR Stage Manager – or at least can’t be on the same laptop – whatever’s on their laptop screen will be the live projection, therefore they can’t open a chat window to talk to us, or it would project on the building. So we’ll need to be cued in some other way.
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Vanessa
ONE Night
ONE Night, 31 May 2014
ONE Night: EZTV, LA ACM SIGGRAPH, and Digital Art in West Hollywood
is coming up on Saturday 31 May! Vanessa Blaylock Company is collaborating with EZTV & Donna Sternberg, et al on a Mixed Reality component to the evenings activities. Our avatars will be projected outdoors on an inflatable balloon or the side of a building.
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Michael J Masucci
Your avatars will definately be projected on a building, not nthe ballon, which will project the drone camera’s transmission. The buildin will be a library, your image will be 45′ wide and projected using a 18,000 lumen Barco projector
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Michael J. Masucci
Hey Van,
Any chance you could do a test of our Wi-Fi connection today between noon and 3 or 4Pm? I will be at the location and want to do asimple test with just Google Hangout+ nto make sure we have an adequate connection on site. Thingsa re really progressing and we are so happy that you are a very BIG part of this!
Vanessa
Fly By VR Cast Dear Moni Trilby Mireille…
Fly-By VR Cast:
Dear Moni, Trilby, Mireille & Aeon! aka “Owen’s Band!”
There’s a new Mixed Reality project brewing and I thought I’d turn first to “The Band” to see about your interest / availability.
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Mireille Jenvieve-Woodford
This sounds like fun! Thank you for the note, Vanessa. The timing seems good for me, and I look forward to learning more.
Happy SPRING!
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Monerda Skute 18:14 on 11/07/2014 Permalink |
Wow! The live dancers were wonderful. And they had a freaking drone flying around! How cool is that!?! Congrats to everyone involved in the production!
Vanessa Blaylock 21:07 on 11/07/2014 Permalink |
Yessy! Which color were you?? 🙂