The play 'The Tempest' uses a digital avatar on stage to give life to the elf Ariel

To bring the digital character to life, who interacts in the work with real people, The actor's movements and facial expressions have been captured directly on stage. The technology has been developed by The Imaginarium Studios and powered by Intel processors.

La Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), together Intel y The Imaginarium Studios, They have created 'The Tempest', a production based on the work of William Shakespeare that uses innovative technologies in order to offer an avant-garde theatrical experience.

"Together, We have created interactions between human and digital that convey maximum realism and immerse viewers in a living environment, “hand in hand with a theater company that has always been at the forefront of the most radical experimentation”, explains Penny Baldwin, vicepresidenta del Global Marketing and Communications Group de Intel.

The technology developed by The Imaginarium Studios (Performance capture), powered by Intel processors, immerses the audience in a journey in which performance capture technologies allow a character to be rendered entirely digitally, in this case the elf Ariel, live and directly on stage at the Royal Shakespeare Theater.

This ability to render an entire digital environment in real time, in this case an avatar, eliminates the need to produce the entire performance in advance and then project it on stage. At the same time, This reinforces the atmosphere of spontaneity that characterizes live performances..

This technology captures the actor's movements and facial expressions, in order to ensure that the entire performance of the actor is reproduced in the digital character.

At the RSC, Intel and Imaginarium Studios have invested more than a year of research to make digital avatars possible, rendered in real time and capable of interacting with real actors.

Directed by Gregory Doran, artistic director of the RSC; con Simon Rusell Beale, RSC Associate Artist, in the role of Prospero; and designed by Stephen Brimson Lewis, CSR design director, This collaboration brings together the CSR expertise in the world of theatrical performances with the digital innovation of The Imaginarium Studios and Intel's experience in technological innovation.