“This project started out from a question: what role should the audience have in VR?” – Corine Meijers, Steye Hallema (THE IMAGINARY FRIEND)

One of the most heartwarming and well-designed participatory VR narratives from recent years, THE IMAGINARY FRIEND stands out even before you put on the headset. Walking around at major XR festivals, you’ll definitely notice otherwise serious attendees suddenly rejuvenated, flapping their physical wings as if they were real birds and shouting “I’m not afraid!” so […]

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Open City Doc’s Expanded Realities is back in September with a full line-up

Open City Documentary Festival is excited to announce the full programme for its twelfth edition, taking place in person from 7th to 13th September. The festival’s first fully in person festival since 2019 welcomes audiences to venues Bertha DocHouse, Birkbeck

In 2024 LFF Expanded welcomes games, and a focus on physical and mental health

The 68th BFI London Film Festival (9 – 20 October) in partnership with American Express is excited to announce the line-up for LFF Expanded, the Festival’s programme of Immersive Art and Extended Reality works, running from 11 – 27 October

Submit your project for the VeeR Future Award 2021 at CANNES XR

Cannes XR, the program from Marché du Film dedicated to immersive cinematographic contents and technologies, is glad to announce its partnership with VeeR, a leading global VR content platform. VeeR invites artists worldwide to submit works for competition at VeeR

HTC’s new VIVE ORIGINALS experience ventures into the realm of performance art and the metaverse

VIVE ORIGINALS, a content brand under HTC VIVE, will be debuting exclusively a VR experience version of the immersive metaverse theatre project “Light the Night: Redhat Killer” at the upcoming MWC Barcelona. This theatre project is made with volumetric capture,

“We had to find the balance between the truth of History and a 360 film set up” – Chen Singing (THE MAN WHO COULDN’T LEAVE)

Noticed in selection at Venice Immersive 2022, THE MAN WHO COULDN’T LEAVE is one of the three Taiwanese works in Competition. A second VR film for filmmaker Chen Singing (AFTERIMAGE FOR TOMORROW) who fully embraces the medium to revisit the

Editorial⎪Coming back from Mutek Montreal Forum 2022

From August 23 to 26, 2022, hundreds of artists and thinkers gathered at UQAM’s Cœur des Sciences for the eighth edition of the MUTEK Forum. Once again this year, the Forum offered a series of activities (conference, round table, workshop,