Hampi-Live was the second stage of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project grant, ‘Reformulating narrative in virtual heritage using a co-evolutionary model of immersive interactivity’. The work is set in UNSW iCinema Centre’s Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment (AVIE); which utilises camera tracking, omni-stereoscopic projection and 36 channel spatialised sound.

Participants are tracked in realtime and the digital denizens react to their presence.

Virtools is the content creation tool for AVIE; building character behaviours, special effects, and interfacing with the multitude of hardware interfaces in the space.

We recorded a huge number of bespoke motion capture sequences, which were carefully designed to be composable into complex behaviours.

AVIE is made up of many systems working in parallel, so load balancing visuals and processing for performance was a constant source of concern.

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