A Midsummer Night's Dream

Bringing Shakespeare's metaphors to life through embodied experience

Shakespeare's language is dense with metaphors that students struggle to visualize while reading in class. This VR experience translates those metaphors into immersive environments where students can inhabit the world he described.

Theater students embody characters from the play—including taking the form of a fairy to experience being in a forest from a tiny perspective.

Real-time Motion Capture

A markerless motion capture system allows users to see each other embodying different characters in real-time, facilitating collaborative performance in virtual space.

This allows for a new kind of theatrical rehearsal where spatial relationships and character scale can be explored dynamically.

Puck - Close up

Puck - Full body model

Forest environment

Fairy perspective

Tatiana - Close up

Tatiana - Full body model