XRMust XR Awards 2020: A Year in Immersive Storytelling

Mathieu G.

2020 will have been a special year, but the XR artistic scene will have known how to exist and develop in times of health crisis – through its various events (bravo to the festivals that have reinvented themselves) and online platforms that have offered unprecedented access to increasingly high quality content. It is therefore possible to discover today the best of the year that has just ended – no matter how special it may be.

XRMust XR Awards 2020 – FINAL RESULTS

These awards are the result of a pre-selection process carried out by several XR influencers (Agnese Pietrobon, Tom Ffiske, Philippe Bédard, Fabio Hofnik), and the participation of 355 professionals in the public vote that took place in December 2020.

Impact Award – AFRICAN SPACE MAKERS

Best Acting or Voice Acting – BABA YAGA

Best Storytelling – THE BOOK OF DISTANCE

Best Cinematography or Visual Design – THE BOOK OF DISTANCE

Creator of the Year – Randall Okita

Production Company of the Year – National Film Board (THE BOOK OF DISTANCE, AGENCE…)

Best Non-Interactive Video – UPSTANDER

Best Interactive XP – FINDING PANDORA X

Best XP of the year – THE BOOK OF DISTANCE

And Best XR Event of 2020 – Venice VR Expanded

“To change the way that we hold that history in our bodies” – Randall Okita & David Oppenheim (THE BOOK OF DISTANCE)

“I feel that animation is an awesome tool to enhance VR” – Van Phan (UPSTANDER)

“A completely new way of experiencing a festival” – Liz Rosenthal & Michel Reilhac (Venice VR Expanded)

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Exploring a new storytelling frontier for a new audience at Venice Immersive: WHAT IF…? AN IMMERSIVE STORY and more

Every year for the past six editions of the Venice Film Festival, the cultural association fanheart3 joins this international event with a collateral award (to date still the only one of the immersive section) dedicated to audiences and fan communities:

“It deals with the thrill of adventure but also the acknowledgment that our bodies are ageing” – Shehani Fernando, William Trossell (BURIED IN THE ROCK)

A pioneer of immersive creation, Shehani Fernando was for many years a producer of innovative current affairs content for the Guardian, the BBC and Al Jazeera, before moving into spatial storytelling to direct her own projects. Each time tackling societal

“Our goal is to make people forget the use of technology in our immersive experiences” – Frederic Lecompte (BackLight)

Paris-based production studio, BackLight specializes in entertainment content for the LBE market, being both present in arcades (in Europe or at Area15 in Las Vegas) but also on more artistic projects such as Blanca Li’s LE BAL DE PARIS –

Editorial⎪MYST is back, this time in virtual reality!

The year is 1993, PC games are not really trying to look better since the ’80s, 3D graphics are quite limited and the point-and-click genre is dominating the CD-ROM titles on shelves. A small yet very innovative company called CYAN

“The moments when we are together are the ones that really get this industry going” – Mark Atkin (CPH:DOX – Inter:active 2022)

After a 2021 edition we fell in love with, CPH:DOX Inter:Active is back for a mostly in-person event starting today! Fewer works, large and complex installations and the chance to discover a festival, immersive productions – and Copenhagen itself! –

“Non solo un momento di ideazione, ma una vera e propria fase di sviluppo per costruire solide fondamenta ai progetti selezionati” – Maïwenn Blunat (CPH:LAB)

Bentornato, CPH:LAB! Dopo aver seguito da vicino l’edizione 2022-2023, non potevamo *non* parlare di nuovo del programma di sviluppo creativo di CPH:DOX, che “incoraggia l’assunzione di rischi creativi, celebra i talenti grezzi, facilita la collaborazione al di là dei confini