tagged: xrcam

grove rocked. i loved their music, their energy, their whole thing. icing on the cake: got a shout-out for the ‘amazing visuals’. alas, those visuals are lost to time, and wouldn’t translate to the non-360° here.

the above stills aren’t that, then. more interesting though, as a clearer distillation of a possible future. of hybrid events, either experienced remotely, or feeding the event back to itself, intensified. that’s why I was “experimenting with cameras and AR stage sets”; visuals yes, but trying to make the live act live-er, seeing how xr might pump the performer–audience feedback loop. and having made the test the stills are drawn from, that isn’t just lofty ideal: it’s the moments when the real audience flash into the virtual venue that really stand out to me, that make me feel rather than just see the performance.

diary | 24 jun 2022 | tagged: volta · glastonbury · xrcam · video-in · video-out · vj

next night: fumez for me. we’d had problems with the feeds from the on-stage cameras, so i plugged them in directly… (con’t)

diary | 25 jun 2022 | tagged: volta · glastonbury · xrcam · video-in · vj

my experiments with cameras and cross-reality stage sets used in-development ‘xr cam’ features we’re prototyping. important, hard stuff, that really sells the artist presence premise i think is central to hybrid events and ideas around performing-to-the-internet. it’s unclear whether an iOS app to take advantage of lidar depth imaging is mass-market enough at present, and this shot doesn’t help as that flat orange is showing no depth… but it certainly sells what it was like to be there.

diary | 25 jun 2022 | tagged: volta · glastonbury · xrcam · video-in · vj

i’d imagined the 45 minutes as a masterclass, but at some point realised the greater good would be promoting some of the ideas volta is built upon. so i made a deck full of videos showing volta in action, structured around –

• be 3D-first
• embrace remote
• embrace audience interaction
• embrace yourself

why? because if you put these all together, you get

• XR artists sustained by their fans

the iffy idea, after the volta part, was my thinking around ‘why go see live a/v’. what are the formats that might be both entertaining and fast to make? as the production behind things like rbn_esc is, nowadays, simply prohibitive.

and so: the fuel records piece

• a classic rock album documentary for the rave generation
• friday night on BBC4, with a club PA
• ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

diary | 13 apr 2024 | tagged: volta · xrcam · fuel records · crux · *spark · vj

garry spacepope, cardinal of tomorrow. need i say more?

volta’s xrcam remains a wonder. like the diarama earlier, visuals that were perfectly fit for purpose.

diary | 17 may 2025 | tagged: insieme · xrcam · *spark · volta · vj