 headset - made the rant feel alarmingly real. "You're in the dressing room at half-time and getting his view of your first half performance. It rattled me, there was a lot of swearing and finger pointing. But it was very well done. It was uncomfortable in a good way." The play, called Smile, was about the life of legendary Dundee United manager Jim McLean. Ms Doyle had been expecting a conventional performance of a play featuring the blunt-spoken manager when she arrived at the Dundee Repertory earlier this year. Before the curtain rose she accepted an invite to a section of the foyer where VR headsets were on offer to curious theatre-goers. Image source, Box Office VR Image caption, Gemma and Kelman Grieg-Kicks hope virtual reality headsets will attract a new theatre audience The intense preview sequence came from Box Office VR, a firm founded by Kelman and Gemma Grieg-Kicks of Box Office VR. Having spent careers in film-making and touring theatre, the husband and wife team, hope that VR can extend the reach of theatre to untapped audiences. Anyone who wants to use the service would have to buy their own headset, but Box Office VR is designed to work on cheap systems like Google Cardboard VR Glasses. To watch a show the customer has to insert their phone into the VR device. Once the phone is place, the users strap the box, effectively a pair of cardboard goggles, around their head and plug in their own headphones. The app then streams a recorded performance to the phone, which the VR headset amplifies, taking the viewer into a 180 degree view of the stage and auditorium. It is aimed at anyone who might not think of visiting the theatre, or who cannot phys){kind=link}
Roberta Doyle was unnerved when she found herself on the receiving end of a football manager’s rant.
Despite just being a member of the audience, the play’s delivery – through a virtual reality (VT) headset – made the rant feel alarmingly real.
“You’re in the dressing room at half-time and getting his view of your first half performance. It rattled me, there was a lot of swearing and finger pointing. But it was very well done. It was uncomfortable in a good way.”
The play, called Smile, was about the life of legendary Dundee United manager Jim McLean.
Ms Doyle had been expecting a conventional performance of a play featuring the blunt-spoken manager when she arrived at the Dundee Repertory earlier this year.