VIRTUAL CONCERT HALL MODULE IN AUGMENTED REALITY: HYBRID EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ARTS

Abstract

Scientific research in the field of professional education in the arts field shows rather limited training technologies for adaptation to public stage performance. For the most part, they touch upon the theory and practice of creative psychology, and in the real situation of training are concentrated in individual classroom practice with the absence of an auditorium. The conducted research shows the effectiveness of soft skills development in the situation of public concert performance of an artist on stage with the help of professionally oriented module of audio-visual immersive content for work in AR software. This was made possible by the combination of the situational module of the Virtual Auditorium (VA) Virtual Concert Hall incorporated into the AR technology framework, which provided the maximum necessary auditory learning accessibility, repeatability, variability and, ultimately, the formation of a professionally orientated systematic public concert performance skill of the product user. The study has shown that 1) the application of a simulator-type module of a virtual VA audience (Concert Hall) with the help of augmented reality glasses (AR glasses) contributes to the effective consolidation of stage performance skills, facilitates adaptation to the conditions of real stage practice; 2) the developed dynamic 3D content moves the reference point of the solution of this problem from the field of personality psychology to the immersive audiovisual space of public performance at the educational stage of art programs preparation. The development of this module is aimed at creating an application with new characteristics available for a wide range of devices: computers, smartphones, tablets, VR for use by participants of the educational process of arts direction.