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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

Extended Reality (XR) Shrines

Xanadu’s “shrines” were seven, tracked movable LED walls serving as portals into the show’s 3D virtual world.    

Media was rendered on each shrine using nDisplay in Unreal Engine 5 on a Boxx Apexx workstation with NVidia graphics on Absen LED panels and Brompton processing provided by 4Wall Entertainment.  Each shrine also had a Meyer ULTRA self-powered speaker.  

Position and orientation of each shrine was tracked in real-time via Mo-Sys StarTrackers, enabling them to be moved by the show’s ensemble during the performance to reveal different parts of the virtual world.  

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

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