From Darren Trebel in Frankfurt:

Just thought I’d update you on our progress here in Frankfurt on our developing sound sculpture garden in VR.  My Grade 10 students have engineered sounds and Iäve compiled all of these in Mp3 format for use in Unity.  They have also begun fashioning the vessels or containers for their sounds, the forms of which, of course, are based in concept on the sounds they must contain.  

We have everything we need for the 3D scanning of the finished sculptures, which should be taking place around beginning of March.  Our team of VR environment programmers has already assembled a garden space for us, along with places for the sculpture files and the accompanying sounds.  They (one of our Grade 11 students and four or five middle schoolers) have successfully mastered the responsive audio protocol to make the sounds work with regard to distance and position in virtual reality (that was a challenge for them!) and we have begun to install specific assets (trees, grass, pedestals, etc) in the space.  They’ve also begun fixing the telemetry for the viewer to be able to teleport around the space.

So, things are rolling,  We plan to upload the entire sound sculpture garden onto the school’s open server, so that, with links provided, anyone with internet can don a pair of goggles and earphones and take a walk through the space and experience the eleven sound sculptures that are there virtually.  I’ll have a much better idea of when that will actually come available as the spring starts and we close in on assembling the exhibition and getting it uploaded.  

The programmers have already assembled a garden space for us, along with places for the sculpture files and the accompanying sounds.  They (one of our Grade 11 students and four or five middle schoolers) have successfully mastered the responsive audio protocol to make the sounds work with regard to distance and position in virtual reality (that was a challenge for them!) and we have begun to install specific assets (trees, grass, pedestals, etc) in the space.  They’ve also begun fixing the telemetry for the viewer to be able to teleport around the space.

So, things are rolling,  We plan to upload the entire sound sculpture garden onto the school’s open server, so that, with links provided, anyone with internet can don a pair of goggles and earphones and take a walk through the space and experience the eleven sound sculptures that are there virtually.  I’ll have a much better idea of when that will actually come available as the spring starts and we close in on assembling the exhibition and getting it uploaded.