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The RIT XRLive project

The Goal of this project is to explore the use of computational tools, technologies, and methodologies in the process of the production of live theatrical and dance performances. The project will produce its own live performances in addition to working with other performing arts groups and projects across campus.

Technologies

Augmented Reality

Mobile AR
Hololens
Magic Leap
Apple Vision Pro

Faces

Facial Motion Capture
Facial expression analysis
Eye Tracking

Motion Capture

Performance capture
Perception Neuron
SONY mocapi
FreeMoCap

Projections

Projection mapping
Touch Designer
OBX

Video Streaming

Zoom Theatre
Volumetric video capture

Virtual Reality

Oculus
Unreal Engine
Unity
Godot

Recent Performances

Singring and the Glass Guitar

2023

Been Set Free

2021-2022

AR Fantasia

2021

The Canadian Wiggler

2020

S.M.O.O.C.H.

2019

Unabridged Emotions

2018-2019

Virtual Karaoke

2018-2019

Farewell to Dawn

2016-2017

The Nostalgia Project

2012-2015

Publications

publications
  • Joe Geigel, Thomas Warfield, Yunn-Shan Ma, Dan Roach, and Shaun Foster. (2023). Music, Motion, and Mixed Reality: An Interdisciplinary, Problem-Based Educational Experience. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator's Forum (SIGGRAPH '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 1–2.

  • Joe Geigel. (2022). Enabling Virtual Theatre: Two Technical Approaches for Live Distributed Performance, In Proceedings of The 19th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2022), London, UK. Dec 1-2, 2022.

  • Yunn-Shan Ma, and Joe Geigel, (2022). Implementing New Live Music Experiences - A Non-Music Majors’ AR Fantasia Collaboration, The College Music Society Annual COnference 2022, Long Beach, CA, 2022

  • Jietong Chen, Kunal Shailesh Shitut, Joe Geigel, David Munnell, and Marla Schweppe, (2020). Building the Virtual Stage: A System for Enabling Mixed Reality Theatre, 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Atlanta, GA, USA.

  • A.Dining and J. Geigel, Farewell to Dawn: A Virtual Theatre Production, (2020). IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2020, pp. 859-859

  • J. Geigel. (2017). Creating a theatrical experience on a virtual stage. In: 14th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2017). London, UK

  • Felipe Caputo, Victoria Mc Gowen, Joe Geigel, Steven Cerqueira, Quincey Williams, Marla Schweppe, Zhongyuan Fa, Anastasia Pembrook, Heather Roffe. (2016). "Farewell to Dawn: A Mixed Reality Dance Performance in a Virtual Space", In ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Posters (SIGGRAPH '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

  • Cox, M., A. Hollenbach, and J. Geigel (2016). A Dynamic 3D Performance Space for Control of Virtual Musical Instruments (Demo). In: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces. ISS ’16. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada: ACM, pp.477–480.

  • Hollenbach, A., M. Cox, and J. Geigel (2016). A Dynamic 3D Performance Space for Control of Virtual Musical Instruments. In: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces. ISS ’16. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada: ACM, pp.279–285.

  • Geigel, J., P. Hu, A. Khetan, M. Kwon, S. Lakin, V. Lin, R. McCartney, S. Petoniak, M. Tidridge, and K. Verrant (2016). PULSE: An Infrastructure for Collection of Audience Heartbeats for Music Visualization. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Demonstrations (PerCom Demos 2016). Sydney, Australia.

  • Ferry, P., Geigel, J., and Lakin, S. (2014)., “The nostalgia project.” In Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, D. Reidsma, I. Choi, and R. Bargar, Eds., vol. 136 of Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer International Publishing, pp. 128–131.

  • Lakin, S. Ferry, P., and Geigel, J.. (2014). “Please take this Moment to Turn ON all Cell Phones: A live musical performance connecting photography and music”, Society for Photographic Education 2014 Conference (SPE 2014), Baltimore, MD, March 6-9, 2014.

  • Susan Lakin and Joe Geigel. (2013). "Exploring the intersection between art, music, and technology." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Talks (SIGGRAPH '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 22 , 1 pages.

  • J. Geigel, M. Schweppe, D. Huynh, and B. Johnstone. (2011) Adapting a virtual world for theatrical performance. Computer, 44(12):33 –38, dec. 2011.

  • J. Geigel and M. Schweppe. (2011). Motion capture for realtime control of virtual actors in live, distributed, theatrical performances. In Automatic Face Gesture Recognition and Workshops (FG 2011), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, pages 774 –779, march 2011.

  • M. Schweppe and J. Geigel.(2011). Live theater on a virtual stage: Incorporating soft skills and teamwork in computer graphics education. Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 31(1):85 –89, jan.-feb. 2011.

  • M. Schweppe and J. Geigel. (2009). Teaching computer graphics in the context of theatre. In Eurographics 2009 Educators Papers, pages 67–72.

  • J. Geigel and M. Schweppe. (2007). Combining games with theatre to create an interdisciplinary learning experience for computer science. In Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development in Computer Science Education, pages 3–7.

  • J. Geigel and M. Schweppe.(2005). Virtual theatre: a collaborative curriculum for artists and technologists. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Educators program, SIGGRAPH ’05, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM.

  • J. Geigel and M. Schweppe (2005). What’s the buzz?: A theatrical performance in a virtual space. In L. Reznik, editor, Advancing Computing and Information Sciences, pages 109–116. Cary Press, 2005.

  • J. Geigel (2005). Virtual theater – one step beyond machinima. The Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 13(11), nov. 2005.

  • J. Geigel and M. Schweppe (2004). Theatrical storytelling in a virtual space. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Story representation, mechanism and context, SRMC ’04, pages 39–46, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM.

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    Phone

    585-475-2051

    Email

    Joe.Geigel@rit.edu

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