ELECTRIC ISLAND
Intel - GemSense
DESCRIPTION
Client: Intel - GemSense
Technical Direction: Scott Ashton
Programming and Design: Scott Ashton, Yossi Landesman
Artistic Direction: Ben Weatherall
RealSense programming: Gemsense
Music: Spoonbill
Date: Feb 2017
A one off installation to showcase Intel's new RealSense depth camera at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress 2017.
You play a GodLike being (in VR). Towering over Electric Island, your hand gestures interact with the island artefacts to make music.
Ben Weatherall, a co-designer of Crossy Road, creates the distinctive look here, as well as original music from Spoonbill.
TECHNICALS
Hardware: WIndows NUC, RealSense Camera, Samsung S7, Samsung Gear
Platform: Unity 3D using Google VR
Language: C# and HLSL
A project with lots of moving parts. A RealSense depth camera, attached to a PC, creates a realtime skeleton of you (the God) from that depth information. Each frame this is sent to a Samsung S7 (in a mobile VR headset). The skeleton interacts with the island to make music using 2 GemSense spatial controllers.