Behold the future of online social dancing in VR.
Carousel Dancing at #Gamescom2024 hosted by Gameup! Rheinland-Pfalz Hall 10.2 Booth E020G – D021G
Reinventing human interaction in the digital age
We are excited to invite you to the demonstration of our vision of a future Socially and Physically enhanced internet at Gamescom2024 on our booth hosted by Innovationsagentur Rheinland-Pfalz.
 | By harnessing the power of AI and pushing the boundaries of immersive technologies, the partners of Carousel Dancing embark you on a journey redefining interaction and connectness between people in the digital age. Through these cutting-edge technologies, Carousel Dancing is aiming to dissolve the barriers of space and time by connecting people with entertainment, fun and companionship at anytime from anywhere. |
Combat loneliness dancing in Virtual Reality
The current online experience is mostly passive, disconnected and disembodied. Internet users are patently part of the digital world, but often isolated from real-world sensations and feelings such as the presence of others, their touch, or their movement. This situation results in ourselves being isolated, instead of brought together, by the very technologies that are designed to connect us. Our aim is to bring people together, make them feel each other even if they are physically separated in different locations.
Dance: A universal language for expressing human feelings
Dance was chosen for carrying our vision of the internet of feelings, as Dance is a profoundly human activity, practiced in all cultures and at all ages. Dance occurs naturally to young children and stays a method of expression over the whole life. Special moments in life, and also just having fun, are celebrated by Dancing. There are no cultural or language barriers for dancing together.
Our two demonstrations
The visitors to the booth will be invited to engage in two demonstrations showing our vision of real-time interactive dancing in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
Dance with your friends in a dreamlike, friendly and inviting plant world
In this demo the audience will be invited in pairs (two by two) to join our Virtual Dance Plant world. The two visitors will be located in 2 separated areas of the booth. One of the two areas will represent a typical – boring – student living/bed/studying room, the other area pictures the virtual dance world created with generative AI. The two dancers will be invited to put on a headset and start dancing on the music in the headset. They will be represented in the Virtual world by cartoon like avatars that will reproduce in real time their exact movements captured by means of depth cameras. With their bodies they will dance on the music in their headsets and synchronize their avatars. This demo realized by Edinburgh Napier University uses the latest version of their DanceGraph low latency dance engine.
Dance with Adam our interactive Virtual Dance Avatar, powered by AI
And what if no friend is available for dancing with you…. In the second demo, the visitors will be invited to dance with Adam our Interactive Virtual Dance avatar powered by AI, the users can either choose to be in a virtual dance studio together in Virtual Reality or invite Adam to join them in Augmented reality in their – possibly boring – student/bed/living room. This demo has been realized by Aalto University and DFKI using the #MotionMatching animation technique.
Join our party and move your body with Fortnite’s best dances.
Several times per day our professional dancer @DancingAlex, will invite you to a short dance party using fun and engaging Fortnite dances. Come dance with Alex and us. The firstcomer’s at the session will get a refreshment offered by Grassroots-Arts. Come by for the schedule.