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WAAPA students demonstrating motion capture facilities.
WAAPA Motion Capture Studio
A collaborative, experimental, interdisciplinary virtual performance space.
Investigating new media technologies for real-time virtual performance and immersive experiences.
Our core real-time pipeline leverages a gold standard motion capture volume and high-powered computing coworking space that continually integrates peripheral technologies alongside the evolution of modern virtual performance.
Collaboration and development
Designed for artists and tech experts to work together easily and quickly.
Collaborators across disciplines can rehearse and collaborate in response to real-time rendered virtual performance outputs. This rehearsal landscape enables projects to iteratively pre-visualise scenes, adapting and capturing performance through multiple stages of the production process.
Digital integration of human performance.
A central focus explores the creation of characters that are scaled and retargeted to performers’ functional anatomy. This process aspires to enable performers direct interaction with virtual co-performers and performance environments, minimising post-production requirements and enabling fully live, unedited performance opportunities.
Studio Facilities
- 24 camera Vicon Valkyrie 26 volume: 10m x 10m x 3m volume for capture of up to twelve performers including finger and custom prop tracking.
- Rapid prototyping engine templates: Pre-built frameworks allow new ideas to be tested without starting from scratch, speeding up the creative process.
- Secure on site and cloud based data storage.
- Dedicated local studio network for direct in studio data transport and sharing
- Dedicated open-plan developer suite: High powered computing co-working space encouraging and facilitating essential interdisciplinary work.
- Real-time virtual camera; displays and visualises virtual environments for pre-production and live performance applications
- Metahuman animator and Faceware facial performance capture: Integrated facial and motion capture pipeline enable full real-time performance capture
- A nested Vicon Markerless volume (6m x 6m x 2m) enables near instant motion capture tracking for immersive interaction and iterative production tasks.
For more information, please contact Dr Luke Hopper.