Virtual Production Experiments in Exploring Mawson
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Unreal Engine
in the Data Arena
Create real-time immersive and interactive experiences in 360º. Unreal Engine opens a world of possibilities for data visualisation, architecture, productions, fashion, gaming, and more in the Data Arena. Build off-site and bring in your project.
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Data visualisation, virtual production and gaming. See how students and staff are already using Unreal Engine in the Data Arena.
Use Cases
Beyond gaming, Unreal Engine in the Data Arena has a wide range of applications. Learn how it can be utilised for exploration and discovery.
Architectural Visualisation
The Data Arena provides 360 degrees of contextual awareness. With Unreal Engine, models can be visualised with photorealistic lighting, shadows and reflections. Real-time rendering enables cutting-edge possibilities for architectural visualisation and Digital Twin simulations, with layer-by-layer exploration.
As a group, we can navigate massive models, test on the fly design modifications and simulate time-of-day lighting with immediate feedback.
Virtual Production
The Data Arena display creates an immersive background for photo and video shoot projects. Unreal Engine can bring these backgrounds to life with real-time scene changes, object interactions and visual effects. In combination with our motion capture system, the Data Arena can be utilised as a virtual production studio, integrating people and objects filmed in the theatre with virtual worlds behind them.
Digital Fashion
As the industry-changing growth of Digital Fashion continues, theatres such as the Data Arena become prime showcase spaces for designs from garment modelling software like CLO. Digitally-led workflows have the capacity to dramatically reduce waste and costs—as explored during the AFC FashTech Lab 2022—and Unreal Engine allows the iterative prototyping process to continue live on screen.
The Data Arena’s motion capture system could also allow for future runway experiences with instant garment changes and environment simulations.
Input and Interaction
The Data Arena is a shared virtual reality environment. Groups of up to 20 people can see each other, while still experiencing 3D stereoscopic vision. We apply this vision for shared experiences to input and interaction, moving away from the mouse and keyboard.
Visitors can each control their own cursor on screen using their phones and our custom web app service, DA Live, accessed via a QR code. Our Motion Capture system trackers can also to point, click, rotate, trigger events and much more, with movement precision down to 3mm.