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Xanadu
UCLA Department of Theater
UCLA REMAP
May, 2025
Expanded website coming in July, 2025.

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Production 

• Overview
• Audience Experience
• Virtual + Real Worlds
• Olympus: Game + Avatars

Technology

• The XR ‘Shrines’
• Generative AI
  
• Mobile WebApp
• Computer Vision
• Lighting + Sound
• System Integration

Process

• Playtesting + Rehearsal
• Full Credits

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XANADU

Book by Douglas Carter Beane. 

Music & Lyrics by Jeff Lynne & John Farrar. 

Directed by Mira Winick & Corey Wright.

Produced by Jeff Burke. 

XANADU was presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Computer Vision

AI-based computer vision systems by Stereolabs provided markeless motion capture of the performers (and, more experimentally, of the audience) to drive their Olympus avatars.

The team also experimented with using computer vision to analyze audience participation and control animations within a musical number.

Photos by Makela Yopez, Kexin Liu, Sheila Hudson Masters, Jeff Burke. 

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