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The Gaya Theatre in Seoul, South Korea, recently hosted
an amazing hologram performance called VR BreakOut.
Zenex Wave a Korean design and production company used
Medialon Manager Show and Media Control Software with an
iPad to give a chance for the audience to enjoy and
experience a 3D world of virtual reality on stage.
The performance is a musical and danced story about
prisoners who lead a routine life, isolated from the
outside world, and dream of freedom through a mysterious
Bi-guep (a book with supernatural power), which happens
to fall from the sky.
In VR BreakOut - selected for the 2010 Virtual Reality
Content Support Project of Korea Creative Content Agency
(KOCCA), Zenex Wave applies hologram to a commercial
stage for the first time in Korea, realizing virtual
reality on the stage by combining technologies like 3D
projection mapping, interactive sound and state of the
art show control.
During a free-style performance of the actors following
the main story of the production, the sound interactive
technique is shining through. While the brilliant beat
box sound is made by Gundog, the hologram car in the
background flies or rotates in the sky in real time.
For hologram, 3D projection mapping, and interactive
sound, Zenex Wave used various equipment and systems as
Dataton Watchout media players and 5 video projectors
fit with shutters to blocks light from the projectors.
As a Medialon Manager Show control software is used, it
happens that a single operator controls from an iPad the
whole systems effectively from the video console.
The entire audio, video and lighting was controlled and
synchronized by Medialon Manager Show Control software.
“We made the performance become much more perfect by
using a show control system so that a single operator
could control these systems effectively from the video
console.”, declared Kim Ji Hoon and Sin Jong Min from Zenex Wave.
The video cue menu and the projector control menu were
automatically converted according to the rotation of the
iPad, allowing a more efficient and easier control
panel.
For the hologram, videos come from two projectors
installed at the top behind the stage set out, and is
reflected on the mat screen on the floor and then
projected on the foil screen (optical film) mounted at a
45 degree angle.
The audience was amazed with VR BreakOut show during the
3-month theatrical performance at the Gaya Theater.
> Click here to watch a video of "VR BreakOut"
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