Entertainment|2020 - 2021

Jettison

Overview

In July 2020, a group of theater and XR creators joined forces to experiment with live theater in open source, browser-based VR (on Mozilla Hubs). Two months later they presented the one act play, Jettison, for live virtual audiences at The Here Festival.

About the Project

For Jettison and its revival in the first On Board XR Festival, our producing team handled general management tasks for the production as well as heading up design, house management and stage management, in both systems and operation.

Credits and Collaborators

By Brendan A. Bradley

Directed by David Gochfeld

Produced by Alex Coulombe, Kevin Laibson, David Gochfeld, Brendan A. Bradley

Virtual Space Integration by Roman Miletitch

Featuring: Brendan A. Bradley, Nick Carrillo, Nican Robinson

Digital Puppetry by Ashley Clements

Performed in Mozilla Hubs at The Brendan A. Bradley Future Stages Theater

Project Details

Year Released

2020 - 2021

Client / Partner

Brendan Bradley, On Board XR Festival

Platform

Mozilla Hubs

Tech Stack

Mozilla Hubs, OBS, OBS Ninja

Awards

Nominee, Producers Guild of America Innovation Award

Status

Completed

Press

https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/JETTISON-a-New-Play-Produced-Rehearsed-and-Performed-in-Virtual-Reality-Closes-Out-Here-Online-Oasis-Weekend-20201001

Publications

Coulombe, A., Gochfeld, D., Bradley, B., Laibson, K., Long, R., Miletitch, R. "Virtual Reality Live theatre on No Budget: A Model for Independent Theatrical Productions using Open-Source Social VR" SIGGRAPH '21: ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Educators Forum Aug 2021 Article No.: 2 https://doi.org/10.1145/3450549.3464413

Links

https://www.brendanabradley.com/futurestages/2020/11/30/live-theater-in-virtual-reality https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/JETTISON-a-New-Play-Produced-Rehearsed-and-Performed-in-Virtual-Reality-Closes-Out-Here-Online-Oasis-Weekend-20201001