Supernatural

During development of the Supernatural VR fitness app for Oculus Quest, XR studio With.in wanted to test the feasibility of including an “avatar replay” feature where players of the 1st person experience could replay their VR workout as a shareable cinematic clip (featuring a robot avatar).

Mod designed and prototyped an autonomous real-time rendering solution using UE4 and Google Cloud that tested the creative, technical and business feasibility of developing this feature.

Mod prototyped an Infrastructure-As-Code service for spawning Linux UE4 instances on Google Cloud that could process render job requests using game session data (e.g. HMD, motion controllers, game objects) and produce high quality video clips featuring procedural animated sequences of a digital human character (created by ELC).

Over a three week development sprint, Mod was able to demonstrate through working prototypes the key service design criteria that allowed the client to make highly informed decisions about overall cost and the technical feasibility of rolling out this innovative feature.