Medieval Bologna VR 2.0

Medieval Bologna 2.0 is a Virtual Reality experience that take the user back to the 13th century in the city of the towers.

Along this journey, the time traveller may experience:

  • going around an accurate reconstruction of the center of the city as it was;
  • flying above the many Manhattan-like towers;
  • making some characters talk or eavesdropping on their conversations to learn about every day life and fun facts;
  • climatic changes and day/night stages.
This VR experience is available to people at Museo Realtà Virtuale in Bologna from April 2018.

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What I did

MOTION CAPTION

I had to play dice, eat invisible food, interact with my screen, milk a goat…

MOCAP POST PROCESSING

I classified and cut all of the take and start fixing floating feet and joint dislocations. I ended with a library of 100 different animation clips.

PROGRAMMING

I handled all of the programming stuff like a dialogue system to make 107 characters talk to each other for about 500 lines of dialogue with audio/animation sync, multilanguage support and subtitles; a custom mini-scene manager to handle different stages (each one with its settings and peculiarities) from the same Unity scene; user input from VR devices; custom editor scripts and also non programming related tasks in Unity like level design, LODs, Animators…

3D MODELLING

I modelled some props like chains, chariots, pots…