Augmented Reality Musical Service Part 1 for Non-face-to-face Watching by Multiple Audiences

Abstract

We propose an augmented reality(AR) musical service in which virtual actors perform on the stage of the real world, even if actors and audiences do not meet. The AR musical service proposed in this paper applied augmented reality technology using an AR platform we are developing. Here, part 1 of the augmented reality musical service is defined as the main performance of the augmented reality based musicals. First, we generated a map of a real stage space in the real world that can provide non-face-to-face musicals using AR technology. In addition, we created an AR application that can show virtual actors, their performance, their songs, and virtual stage props and effects appearing in the proposed AR musical service. Finally, we used AR technology to allow multiple audiences to enjoy the proposed AR musical service together in the stage space of the real world. In this paper, it was possible to confirm whether multiple audiences could watch the proposed AR musical service together in which the virtual actors perform on a real stage as if it were real musicals.