The above video, in my opinion, represents a rather traditional was of designing the sound, although we can see it slowly lurking into the future. Virtual reality is shifting the paradigm of storytelling and can use sound as its director, … Continue reading →

Spirit (identity, genius loci) of place and sense (ability to appreciate) of place Psychical setting – buildings, streets, trees, hills etc Activities that occur – working, shopping, walking, studying and all other daily routines Meanings – the arise from the … Continue reading →

 “To me sound is the most important part of movie-making,” he said. “Sound design is sort of everything. People can tolerate such crappy images if the sound design is amazing, but trying to watch something when the sound isn’t present … Continue reading →

One of the rooms will have a gallery and some paintings hung on the walls. And this is one of them (by Fraser): Producing the score to a drawing made by my group colleague was a very interesting and slightly … Continue reading →

It was the first time we had a chance to see the visual part of our project and play it along the sounds we prepared. Together with one of the VR students we worked on one of the scenes that … Continue reading →

I found the soundtrack and mixing in The Mushroom Men very inspiring. I am not a gamer at all, but by watching the playthrough of this game I realised how important the sound is in creating the immersive experience. As … Continue reading →

https://developer.oculus.com/resources/audio-intro-sounddesign/?locale=en_GB – what to think of, when designing sound for VR. I think that the technique of recording is crucial in creating sound for VR. Sound is very powerful and can completely change the experience – from taking away the … Continue reading →

Otherworld in Victoria ‘OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise, home to sixteen unique VR experiences, accessed only from our growing network of city centre metaverse portals‘(https://www.other.world/) As a group, we decided to go there and experience it together. Some of … Continue reading →

VR audio in Unity Having watched above videos I learnt, that sound files created in DAW, that are meant to be processed in FMod and Unity to create an interactive audio-visual experience like VR or games, have to be edited … Continue reading →

The idea for virtual reality experience we agreed on at this point is world consisting of 2 cubes comprising 4 different worlds each. Each of us in the group will have one of the worlds. The concepts for each cube … Continue reading →