Robot Diaries

.I've got big news, I'm currently working on the next VR project called Robot Diaries. I secured funding a few months back but as I had a big change in my personal life - I gave birth to a baby girl - I’ve been working at a slightly slower speed than usual ;) However, as a lot of progress has been made in the last couple of months I really want to share more about this new exciting venture! It is ACE funded project which aims to deliver a series of workshops for young people teaching them about VR. I've partnered up with Midlands Arts Centre for workshop delivery and in September I'll be delivering the first workshops
As part of the workshops, I’m developing a storytelling experience in Mozilla Hubs. The story is inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s Sci-Fi literature. In the story, participants get to visit an abandoned Robot Care Centre and they find robots who need help and have different tasks to assist them. During workshops, participants get to explore and interact with the world of the robots using Oculus and laptops. They also get to develop their VR skills as they will learn about Spoke which is Mozilla Hubs' own tool for world-building. 
I’m currently working through final revisions of the story and also polishing of world of robots in Mozilla Hubs. I have been lucky to be able to work with Dyspla studio on script edits and character development. I’m using face mocap in this project to record some of the characters and as always I’ve been DIYing and testing different low-budget solutions, will share my findings on this soon. I also want to mention two other great artists that have been on this journey with me recently. I’ve been working on world-building in Mozilla Hubs with Miguel Rosario Cyberartist and Amoeba. Also ’ve been learning Spoke as we worked along and even with being fluent in game engines there has been some learning curve but my adventures with Mozilla Hubs are a story for a different time.

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