KAGAMI Live Mixed Realty Show Begins Limited Theatrical Run
A new performance opened at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York this week, KAGAMI, which blends theater, music, film and Magic Leap 2 mixed reality headsets. The fifty minute experience is built around a volumetric capture of late composer and performer Ryuichi Sakamoto. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for New York audiences to see the mixed reality future of live performance. ...
As the show begins, we’re advised we can move around if we choose. No one does, at first. Sakamoto’s hologram, seated at the piano, materializes in the middle of the room and begins to play the first piece. A few of us rise and move toward the performer. Soon, others follow. Slowly, effects start to flow around us. Augmented by the theatrical lighting in the room, the music, effects, and images create a world moving and morphing around us. When Sakamoto, well, his hologram, ends a piece, there is silence. One person claps before they realize this is not a live performance. ...
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