Bringing a virtual string quartet to life

Abstract

Classical music is a very traditional art and not often associated with modern technology. This paper proposes an approach to combine both classical music and modern technology in order to create an interactive Augmented Reality (AR) experience. The developed application brings the string quartet of the Konzerthaus in Berlin to life using the 3D engine Unity and the AR library Vuforia. The AR string quartet lets users freely interact with the four individual musicians of a string quartet and listen to as many musicians at the same time as one likes.