KAYAC Inc. will be in charge of planning/development of VR | KAYAC

KAYAC Inc. (head office: Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa; Representative Director & CEO: Daisuke Yanasawa; TSE Mothers: 3904) will be in charge of planning/development of VR space in “Sword Art Online Synthesis - The Period of Alicization Project -” – a VR event featuring TV animation “Sword Art Online: Alicization” held by Aniplex Inc on both day of December 26th (Saturday) and 27th (Sunday). Unity is used as a game engine for all of the event from spatial production to live streaming.

A monitor screen appearing inside the VR space will distribute talk shows and VR spatial experiences exclusive to the event. In addition to those, it is streamed through YouTube Live so that users who could not access to the VR space can easily enjoy it through their smartphone and PC.

“Sword Art Online Synthesis - The Period of Alicization Project -” Event Outline

We are developing a VR world with programable development environment in VRChat SDK3 (Udon) and new features enables various gimmicks and presentations in Unity Environment.

We have developed a worldwide system for real-time synchronous streaming on the VRChat platform. It enables users all over the world to experience the event at the same time by the gimmick in the VR world which synchronized with music lives and talk shows.

In addition to existing features such as particles, we are developing original shaders, and creating diverse expressions for the production.

We are constructing interactive experiences fully utilizing “Udon” - node based programing language provided inside VRChat SDK.
Over 40 minutes live performance by an orchestra is scheduled in the finale. Users all over the world can share the experience of production effect by shaders and particle systems optimized to VRChat space.
Beautiful and photo-realistic world view of SOA is perfectly re-constructed inside VRChat space by optimizing its performances to social platform in its maximum.

In addition to that, we are preparing tricks and such to surprise you, so please look forward to it!

Official Website: https://sao-alicization.net/
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/sao_anime
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