For five years now, Ágnes Karolina Bakk and András Szabó have brought tightly curated VR exhibits to the Verzio Human rights documentary festival. In 2015, VR’s second wave was ushered in by a human rights documentary that its director, Chris Milk, believes established VR as an Empathy Machine. Milk had good rhetoric, since nobody wants […]
The world’s premier animation festival, Annecy (and its market, MIFA), is well aware of immersive innovations. With an existing interest since 2015, the event quickly introduced several sections to host not only a Competition but also moments of reflection and
Interactive storytelling studio Inlusio Interactive releases the Field Guide « The Sensations of Spatial Storytelling in VR ». The guide explores sensations unique to spatial storytelling in Virtual Reality and includes insightful reference cases from industry pioneers. The guide is
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
In more than 60 years of broadcasting, David Attenborough has travelled the globe to document the living world in all its wonder. Now, with Alchemy Immersive and Meta, he travels back in time using Virtual Reality to bring to life
Tung-Yen Chou is a Taiwanese theatre director, filmmaker and founder/artistic director of Very Mainstream Studio and Very Theatre in Taipei. TRAVERSING THE MIST, a multi-user exploration of gay saunas, premiered at IDFA DocLab, won the Grand Jury Prize at New Images