Interactive VR without the goggles

Since 2017 we have been developing 3D interactive technology that allows for a Virtual Reality type experience without the isolation and cumbersome goggles.

Our aim is to create a seamless multi user interface that allows hundreds of users to share a participatory VR environment, and to fully engage and play in that space with other participants.

 Initially conceived for a theatre environment, Box of Birds has potentially a raft of applications from play spaces for children, theme parks, learning environments, cultural tourism and entertainment.

Pitch Deck: Creature Interactions 3D

Who we are

BOX OF BIRDS ARE A COLLECTIVE OF ARTISTS,Technologists AND ORGANISATIONS WHO WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE A Digital Play SPACE WHERE THE WONDER of the world can be experienced anew.

WHERE THE IMPOSSIBLE IS POSSIBLE AND FANTASY BECOMES REALITY

Creature Interactions

 Space Play

Space Play enables children and adults alike to experience a joyful sense of interstellar wonderment.

You wave your hands, and a cloud of asteroids surrounds you – triggered by Box of Birds’ unique interactive technology. You see, hear and play with a range of stellar objects in the room.

You fly down to the moons of Jupiter and pass by the rings of Saturn.

Teaming up with with friends, you run around the space, and delight in moving the planets and the stars.

Space Play is an interactive installation launched by the Box of Birds team. It is designed for large auditoriums for up to 300 people to play in.It recently played the Science Alive Festival in Adelaide S.A.- but it will be coming to a city near you shortly…….

Space Play……. the adventure awaits you……..

Shipwreck Odyssey

Voyage beneath the turquoise waves and coral cays of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef as the ghost ship Jenny Lind leads you on an adventure into the wild wonders and mysteries of our oceans.

Part theatre show - part playspace immersive installation, Shipwreck Odyssey combines live storytelling and performance with a state-of-the-art responsive projection playscape- inviting audiences to come alive to their love for our blue planet.

Shipwreck Odyssey was first presented at the Australian National Maritime Museum as part of 2023 Sydney Festival. We performed over 100 shows.

 Mountain

Box of Birds and Stalker’s 25 minute production designed for festivals and family events.

Mountain: has been seen by over thirty thousand people in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. It was awarded the John Chataway Award for “Most Innovative Production” of the 2021 Adelaide Fringe.

Mountain has wowed the crowds with its innovative, physical and visual spectacle.

The performance combines aerial theatre with cutting edge interactive performance technology to explore society’s increasing dependence on technology and the effect it’s having on the world and biosphere around us. The four performers seamlessly meld acrobatics, dance and aerials to create a captivating spectacle.

Alongside the show, Mountain also features a projected 2D play space for young and old alike. Directly after the 25 minute performance, kids and adults are invited to rediscover the environment, wildlife and our relationship to it as the stage is transformed into an interactive Australian habitat. It’s the audience’s time to shine as the interactive projection system encourages everyone to be animated, get moving and play along with our giant interactive play wall on the stage.

My House Your House Me Casa Tu Casa

My House Your House - Me Casa Tu Casa

A live mixed reality transglobal dance party.

My House Your House was a trans-global party featuring Box of Birds (Australia) and Lux Boreal (Mexico).

We worked with some of Sydney’s best underground electronic musicians, live mixed-reality exchanges with dancers in Sydney and Tijuana, interactive audio-visual installations, and aerial performance artists.

All set in our exciting pop-up venue on Sydney Harbour at the atmospheric Australian National Maritime Museum.

Live dancers in Tijuana (Mexico) and Sydney (Australia) captured with 3D LiDAR cameras and dancing in real time with each other across the globe. All to some great sounds from some of Sydney’s leading DJ’s.

 Augmented

Experiments with augmented reality and dance. Undertaken at Critical Path in Sydney late 2022.

Two dancers in real time dancing with their real time virtual selves.

Layer

Layer is a dance / physical theatre/ filmic work co-conceived by Box of Bird artists (Australia) and dancers Katina Olsen, Cloe Fournier and Olympia Kotopoulos . This team is joined by international partners from Groningen in the Netherlands : ShELFISH Productions and WERC. Layer dances the story of three woman, each alone and isolated with multiple cultural identities. Indigenous/ non-indigenous/ Australian/ European. They encounter multiple replications (or layers) of themselves in real, virtual, fragmented and augmented realities. Layer explores notions of replication of self- identity, and the pleasures and fears we stumble upon in our socially distanced COVID selves. Layer is filmed with 3D LIDAR cameras and blends live 3D capture with animation and photogrammetry. The three dancers ,two in Australia , one in the Netherlands, dance together in an interactive filmic 3D space that is both live, projected, virtual and screen based.

Video excerpt from the first work in development November 2020 : Layer

Pitch Deck : Layer

Big Skies

Big Skies is a series of 3D experiences to be created for the interactive space.

It will celebrate and capture the wonder that so many of us feel when we first see and contemplate the beauty of the night skies. We explore this through several cultural lenses, particularly focusing on the night skies of inland rural Australia where the night sky remains very dark and clear. We are as inspired by the star stories Australia’s First Peoples and Chinese Australians have told in the past as they gazed at the night sky, as we are by recent scientific exploration.

Big Skies will meld several media forms including 3D interactivity, film, animation, and theatre to tell these stories. All in 360 degrees. It is a new type of interactive media event that takes VR out of your headset and into the world around you.

Big Skies will take the audience on a journey through space and time. From the first humans who navigated in their boats to Australia in pre-history, to the many migrants who have come to Australia since then, we shall look at the journeys all people make, and at the relationships they have to the stars.

Big Skies Pitch Deck

This journeying then expands to the playful future as we build Nano Spaceships to travel to other planets beyond our solar system and search for extra-terrestrial life. In this fantastical world of the future you can fall into black holes, flyby distant galaxies and play astro-tennis with a meteor shower. All made possible by our unique 3D interactive technology.

 The Dome

Imagine being in a room full of people and being able to pass 3D asteroids around the interactive space. Participants will share a story and journey together as we travel from landscapes of the ancient world, to trips to our nearest stars and the planets that surround them.

For our initial commercial prototype we will install our 3D interactive media server in a large geosodic dome with up to 15 3D projectors coupled with state of the art tracking equipment. Utilising our world-class animation and filmic team we then will craft a thirty-minute 3D interactive story/ spectacle that will take the audience (up to 300) on a journey from the mythologies of ancient sky stories to the deep reaches of space in the search for life beyond our solar system.

This trip will literally blow your mind.

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