A look at TRACES : THE GRIEF PROCESSOR, and the invisible pain that we carry

Danielle Giroux

Montreal made, multi-user interactive VR experience TRACES : THE GRIEF PROCESSOR, directed by Vali Fugulin, invites you to explore your own grief with others. It was recently selected at SXSW and nominated for Best in XR at Games for Change 2025 Festival. Are you rushing around with a full inbox and an even fuller head? […]

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“Executive production as an act of curation” – Liz Rosenthal (Power to the Pixel)

After the recent run at The Observatory in London of Soul Paint, the multi-award winning virtual reality experience by Sarah Ticho and Niki Smit (and one of the winning pieces of XRMust’s 2024 XR Awards), we met with executive producer

XRMust XR Awards 2025: A Year in Immersive Storytelling

Welcome to the 6th XRMust Awards! This new edition holds no big surprises if you follow us, with awards mainly going to projects that have been screened at the Venice Film Festival—one of the strongest programs of the year and

Cannes XR Virtual unveiled a multi-selection of 55 XR works

For its 2020 edition, the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes’ XR program dedicated to virtual and augmented reality becomes CANNES XR (...)

“With COLORED, we had to confront the physical space and the presence of an audience” – Pierre-Alain Giraud (Novaya)

NOIRE (COLORED) is an experiment that deals with racism and segregation in the USA in the 1950s – with an uncommon universality, reinforced by the choice of mixed reality. Between real-life settings, multimedia narration and a subject that’s still (unfortunately)

“Stories that are important for me to tell are often stories that take me out of my comfort zone” – David Adler (END OF NIGHT x SHADOW)

When history reveals its human soul: a closer look at the content and meaning of END OF NIGHT and SHADOW, recently presented at CPH:DOX Inter:Active Did you study history when you were in high school? I remember it was one

“It is very important for us to open a dialogue with the spectator, even after the experience” – Ondřej Moravec (TMÁNÍ – DARKENING)

This is one of the most sensitive experiences of Venice Immersive 2022. TMÁNÍ (DARKENING) takes viewers on a journey to better understand the daily life of a person suffering from depression, based on the personal feelings of director Ondřej Moravec.