11 May 2024| News

XTREME Opera MR partnership with the Finnish National Opera and Ballet

Last week part of the XTREME team met up in Finland to work on developing initial ideas for the XTREME Opera MR (mixed reality) performance in partnership with the Finnish National Opera and Ballet.

We have discussed:

  • What are the necessary elements of an opera performance?
  • How to design an exciting MR performance for opera as an art form?
  • How to successfully develop a production for the Apple Vision Pro device?

Throughout the workshop Miia Lallukka, Timo Tuovila and Thomas de Mallet Burgess offered us a unique behind-the-scenes experience of the life at the opera, while Ane Skak and Maria Høeberg Madsen shared perspectives on what defines a successful VR (virtual reality) performance. Our primary focus, however, remained on developing preliminary concepts for the MR performances, and needless to say, we enjoyed the process! 🙂

Stay tuned for forthcoming updates on our progress.

Thank you to all that contributed to the workshop: Sami Brandt, Justyna Starostka and Christian Sivertsen from IT-Universitetet i København, Simon Max Bloch Lajboschitz from Khora Virtual Reality, Laura Olin from Younite-AI and Adrian Hazzard and Paul Tennent from the University of Nottingham.

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