“We formatted the project in such a way as to appeal to the widest possible audience” – Lui Avallos (QUEER UTOPIA: ACT 1 CRUISING)

Lui Avallos’ QUEER UTOPIA: ACT 1 CRUISING a queer man who is losing his memory recalls times from a public bathroom in his past, where he had experiences of danger, pleasure and shame. A project developed through the Biennale College, then presented at Venice Immersive 2023, QUEER UTOPIA has since been selected in 2024 at […]

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“Memories we make in VR are as tangible as the ones made in the physical world” – Joe Hunting (WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY)

A year after the ‘Virtually Speaking’ series, Joe Hunting is back with a full-length documentary shot entirely in VRChat: we caught up with him to discuss the challenges of creating works like this one and the possibilities that online social

“At the intersection of story/game and connection” – Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla (GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY)

Awarded with the Grand JURY Prize for Best VR Work at Venezia78, GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY is a VR experience that uses all the narrative tools VR can offer to tackle a difficult subject like schizophrenia. We talked about it

Villa Formose / DEEP ECOLOGY: a generative immersive map to explore the link between technology and ecology

XRMust is at the Kaohsiung Film Festival this year, covering the event and in particular its XR Dreamland section, at the invitation of the French Office in Taipei. It’s also an opportunity to take a look back at the teams

The Red Sea International Film Festival: 10 of the best immersive works from 2022 in the VR Competition

The Red Sea International Film Festival announced today the program for their Virtual Reality Competition, celebrating innovative immersive art and entertainment. The program will feature ten virtual reality productions representing the best of international VR creativity from 2022, which will

“There is a real desire for the public to discover inaccessible environments like Space” – Amaury Solignac (Orbital Views)

Specialist in extreme environments, psychologist by training, Amaury Solignac has been running for more than 8 years a production company of ultra-realistic experiences, Orbital Views, whose goal is to completely immerse professionals (but also the general public) in unknown universes

XR + Ecology = 404 error?

For a long time, those involved in XR and digital creation have been sailing at a dead end: what is the environmental impact of digital equipment or infrastructures? What is the footprint of a work, from production to distribution? These