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Improving the Experience of the Audience With Digital Instruments
New mixed-reality display technologies are being adapted to musical performances.
Credit: Florent Berthaut
A new augmented reality display could give music fans a better appreciation of what musicians are doing with digital instruments.
The new music instruments enable musicians to play almost any sound, as well as controlling them in complex ways by gestures. As part of the IXMI project, a team from the University of Bristol has developed mixed-reality display technologies that adapt to musical performances. Called Reflets, the mixed-reality environment enables three-dimensional virtual content to be displayed anywhere on stage, and even overlaps the instruments or performers.
The audience does not need to wear glasses or use their smartphones to see the augmentations. The technology uses reflective transparent surfaces to combine the audience and stage spaces and has the audience and performers reveal the virtual content by intersecting it with their bodies or physical props.
The team also is investigating visual augmentations to improve the perception of musical gestures.
From University of Bristol News
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