ARIA, a volumetric opera in your home
An opera, captured volumetrically, performed in your living room on a phone.
- Role
- Development lead
- With
- Google Creative Lab
- Year
- 2019
In early 2018 Google’s Creative Lab asked Opera Queensland a question: what happens if you step outside the opera house and render a performance in someone’s home, so everyone gets a front-row seat?
I was the development lead. That meant everything from creative storyboarding, to working out how theatrical grammar translates to a living room, to low-level mesh decompression and per-frame optimization.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
Rendering volumetrically captured performers in real time on a phone took new capture technology, machine learning, and state-of-the-art mobile hardware. The work was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia, where we demoed it, presented the paper, and gave a technical talk. I was first author.
Made with Jonathan Richards, Paul Debevec, Shahram Izadi, Samantha Cordingley, Patrick Nolan and many others.
