The Waiting Room

In mid 2019, Frame Labs presented The Waiting Room at Arts House (Melbourne) as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) VR program. The Waiting Room is a 3D VR installation created by filmmaker Rolf de Heer, alongside Molly Reynolds and Mark Eland, built as an immersive, gallery-style experience that invites you to sit with the uneasy act of “waiting” while moving through a series of surreal, atmospheric environments.

For Frame Labs, the focus was on making sure the experience ran reliably and comfortably as a public installation. That meant taking high-resolution 360 stereoscopic footage and getting it to play smoothly on the target hardware, then packaging it into our exhibition system so it could be deployed, operated, and monitored in a real festival setting.

My work on the project included:

• Encoding and optimising the 360 3D footage for stable playback on Pico G2 3DoF headsets

• Integrating the final media into our in-house Dreamdeck 360 exhibition software

• On-site testing and operation, and running the exhibition for three days during the festival program