1) UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections. 2) The Shakespeare xR project reimagines some of Shakespeare’s classic characters taken from Shakespeare’s First Folio across different technological media. The project pipelines will include rigging and animating characters for web-based AR, VR and an interactive touch table using Unreal Engine’s Metahumans. To support the project, the following features of the parallel pipelines would have already been created: 1) motion captured characters speaking parts of the text; 2) access to 2D scanned pages of the Shakespeare Folio for integration into an interactive touch table; 2) a 3D environment in VR consisting of the Globe Theatre. Target audiences are library goers and those unable to access the Shakespeare First Folio. It’s also for those individuals who may not...
