“Vera” – Crossing the Fourth Wall

PubDate: April 2020

Teams: American University

Writers: Krzysztof Pietroszek

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Abstract

“Vera” is an adaptation of a short story by New Zealand’s early XXth-century feminist writer, Katherine Mansfield. It is a unique artificial reality experience that allows viewers to cross the so-called fourth wall between the film reality and the audience’s reality. The experience allows the viewer to “enter” a film frame via a mixed reality tabletop experience. To our knowledge, “Vera” is the first immersive experience that utilizes both volumetric capture (instead of avatar animation) and photogrammetric reconstruction of the set decoration and props. It is also the first experiment that literally rather than metaphorically crosses the fourth wall.