Overview of technological and other accomplishments in productions of Ina Centaur SL Shakespeare Company to virtual theatre. SLCC

1. the
Ina Centaur
The SLCC Introduction

2.  Atonement After the Passing of a Friend
 Live entertainment without boundaries
 Got Internet? No geographical boundaries.
 Got Voice? No physical discrimination.
 Revive the Bard!
 Environmental Reasons!

3.  Pre-SL
 IRC – 90’s
 Adobe Atmosphere – 2000
 ActiveWorlds – 00’s
 World of Warcraft – 2006
 Skype Shakespeare Radio – 2006
 SL
 Various models of the Globe, even before voice
 First voice auditions held the day SL Voice available
 “Rose and Fell” between 2006-2007
 4-sims acquired in February 2008 for permanent setup

4.  Artistic Despot (References provided on request!)
 Head fundraisers mostly for PR
 Make up for everything where anything lacks… Hmm…
a tyrannical fairy…

5.  We are known for our visual appeal, but:
 With every production, we create and introduce a
new technology in the nascent field of virtual
theatre.
 This is how we create and revolutionize the Art:

6.  Integrated Real-Time Multi-Language
Subtitles System
 On-stage
 HUD
 Scripted Lip-synch system
 Photorealistic skins
 Sculpted talking faces
 Optimized textures
 Historically-accurate Elizabethan attire
 4-sim SL Globe Theatre live performance
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11.  In conjunction with “Shakespeare 24”
 Consulted RL Shakespearean scholars from
around the world
 “Comprehensive Review” of over 100 SL
stores for attire
 Usage of “piped” Elizabethan-accurate era
music in SL theatre, composed by SL
musician
 Maintained standard for actor alt’s
 (And, everything from before)
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16.  Fully-costumed staged reading series
 Fully utilized SL’s ease to change visual
personalities completely
 Developed a grayscale outfit style, “devoid
of the color of motion.”
 Utilized viewer built-in lip-synch.
 “Moving cast”, tag-team performance of
Shakespearean play
 Unabridged, first folio performance
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20.  An unlikely contemporary play with time
travel to grace the Globe stage
 “Seamless advertisements”
 Interactive, too!
 Real equations incognito…
 Box-set on the Globe stage
 Fits the Globe
 Clotheslines above the pit?!
 Real-time director-controlled dynamic
camera controls
 First with synch across 4-sims
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23.  Global lighting changed for each scene
 Multiple sets, sans rezzer
 “Archetypal Attire”
 Usage of a “real storm” on stage
(exemplified in upcoming Demo)
 “Preview Season”

24.  24-hour “silent” text-chat performance
by “Bot-actors” and Celebrities…
 Completely scripted choreography
 Self-guided paths across entire sim
 SL Shakespeare Skates!
 Prior to SL Voice, these “actors” might
have passed the Turing Test…
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30.  All the tech goodies from Twelfth
Night, Act 1 in Nov ‘08
 First open-ended run of a play on SL
 Guided-Moving lights
 Variations, such as Switched Gender and
Super Spoof!
 Live Demo @ NAST Conference to 3000
RL theatre admin’s

34.  To Set the Show and Create the Legend
 The 4-Sim SL Globe Theatre
 Blackfriars Theatre
 Additional Architecture Prominent in Shakespeare’s
Lifetime (Pics in sLiterary Presentation)
 Bard’s Birthplace
 Anne Hathaway’s House
 Arden’s House
 Garrick’s Inn / Harvard House
 Nash House / New Place
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