Virtual cameras, avatars and real footage of a focus group staged in SQUIVE

A 5-minute video clip can be found online which shows a 2D screen capture of the viewport of a user in SQUIVE (Staging Qualitative Immersive Virtualisation Engine) on a walking tour through the theatre site showing time-slices of the cohort of experimental subjects engaged in different activities across four rooms, for example briefing and dressing, contact dance preparation, exoskeleton performance and focus group. Animated avatars substitute for each participant and the reconstructed 3D scene is populated with virtual cameras that substitute for the actual cameras that recorded the event. Each virtual camera can be selected to re-view the reconstructed scene from the perspective of the actual 2D and 360° camera footage. Moreover, a user can launch AVA360VR (Annotate, Visualise, Analyse 360° video in Virtual Reality) from any virtual 360° camera, so that the user can annotate the clip recorded by any physical camera or microphone in the scene concurrently during the same time-slice.