Reborn
Type
VR Narrative
Role
Unity Developer
Technical Artist
Date
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Client
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
Credits
Production: XR Lab@NTUT
Composer: Chieh-Wen Meng
Volumetric Capture: IP Lab
Performer: Huang Hsiang-Lien
After a century of technology development, Gezaixi (Taiwanese Traditional Opera) has interpretation in several forms. What kind of experience will it bring if we watch it on the head-mounted display? Does it still count as Gezaixi when the characters became virtual? Maybe you will give the answer.
2020 — VR Theater, SIGGRAPH Asia
2020 — Demonstration Selection, TAICHI, NTUT, Taipei
2020 — Hyper-Vision AR/VR Experience Room, Kaohsiung Social Education Hall, Kaohsiung
Reborn reimagines Gezaixi (Taiwanese traditional opera) through volumetric capture and immersive VR. It preserves the delicate movements of Gezaixi while creating a new narrative space where culture and technology converge.
These volumetric performances were staged inside Unity, where dynamic lighting, shader effects, and VFX Graph enhanced the volumetric assets and integrated them seamlessly into the virtual stage.
Through VR, audiences step into the opera artist’s world, experiencing Gezaixi in a form that is both familiar and transformed. The narrative invites reflection on how cultural heritage continues to evolve when reborn in the digital realm.
Behind the Scenes
360 Storyboard
3D Asset
Modeled and UV-mapped assets in Blender, creating procedural node-based materials and baking PBR maps.
VR Development
In Unity, implemented custom HLSL shaders and VFX Graph effects, with C# scripts managing animation state machines and interaction logic.
