Building The Tech Into The Story
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Halcyon is a hybrid series built as live-action episodes plus real-time rendered VR episodes made in Unity for Oculus Rift and ported to Samsung Gear VR. The team prototypes, sacrifices and pivots: performance-capture models heat GPU at 90 frames per second, neon-noir art is dropped for abstract digital scenes, and shooting runs on one fifth of a TV budget. The final product ships with linear episodes that summarize predetermined VR outcomes and interactive crime-scene exploration that works well enough for festival and platform launches.
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