Personal devices with loudspeakers can be orchestrated to increase immersion from low channel count reproduction systems. A trial production was conducted to investigate the content creation workflow and delivery mechanism for orchestrated devices. The content (a 13-minute science-fiction drama entitled The Vostok-K Incident) included: a stereo bed; elements only replayed from auxiliary devices; and elements that could either be in the stereo bed or replayed from auxiliary devices. A bespoke production environment was established, including plug-ins for authoring the metadata needed to utilize the rendering ruleset.
Ambiguity in the reproduction system, coupled with flexible and complex metadata authoring requirements, made the production challenging and time-consuming. Future work will focus on refining the production process and developing delivery tools.
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The original paper was published in October 2018; at the time of submission, The Vostok-K Incident production had not been released. As of publication of this white paper, The Vostok-K Incident is available to hear online.
Authors: James Woodcock and Richard J. Hughes (University of Salford), Chris Pike and Jon Francombe and Kristian Hentschel (主播大秀 R&D), and Anthony Churnside and Eloise Whitmore (Naked Productions).
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