The Meeting: Volumetric Participatory theatre Play in Mixed Reality

Abstract

We present “The Meeting”, an immersive volumetric theatre experience in mixed reality. The user takes on the role of Vera, a woman reconnecting with a former partner, Robert. The actor playing Robert was volumetrically captured. The user can move around the “stage”, performing lines of dialogue using prompting or in-air text. Robert reacts to users’ utterances accordingly. “The Meeting” is one of the first interactive theatre plays that uses volumetric capture technology in an interactive manner and places the actors in an interactive mixed-reality space.