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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

Mobile WebAR Application
The show’s mobile web application turned phones into magical devices enabling the cast and audience to draw by gesture, play musical instruments, and find their muse.   The interface focused on collective interaction with the show’s world rather than screen-based interactiion. Augmented reality techniques were used to track the phone’s position and orientation in space.  

Built on the 8th Wall WebAR platform using Cycling 74’s RNBO for audio, the app exchanged data with the show’s Unreal Engine virtual world via Google Firebase.

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

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