XRMust XR Awards 2025: A Year in Immersive Storytelling

Mathieu G.

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 a venue for world premieres. Out of 396 voters, it is clear that the industry's […]

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“LE BAL DE PARIS DE BLANCA LI is a multi-user live show in virtual reality” – Jonathan Tamene (BackLight)

There’s no stopping BackLight! The French studio spread its wings despite Covid, installing one of its OZ rooms in Las Vegas (and soon in Europe) and taking BLANCA LI’s PARIS BAL to Venice for the Biennale – where the project

SXSW 2020 Virtual Cinema finds its way on Oculus TV

SXSW is excited to reveal a new collaboration with Oculus TV, SXSW 2020 Virtual Cinema on Oculus TV, set to launch globally on May 22.

“I believe in the near future the access to artificial intelligence is going to be a human right.” – Violeta Ayala (LAS AWICHAS)

Violeta Ayala is a multidisciplinary creator and a technologist. Her series Awichas joined the permanent collection of the cultural center mARTadero, in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The artist talks about the creative process using AI and the rising challenges of these technological

“In my practice, I have control on how to present realities” – Natalie Paneng (NATALIE’S TRIFECTA)

NATALIE’S TRIFECTA premiered at IDFA, where it won a special jury award for creative technology. The interactive piece transports the viewer through the different worlds of a multi-disciplinary artist (Natalie Paneng), as they explore her physical studio, a virtual gallery

XR Backstory: PLAYTIME, by Catherine Bazinet, Maxime Boisvert, Ronan Le Gall, Alexis Maher & Charles Tétreault

Selected by the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) in 2019, PLAYTIME is a student project produced by Catherine Bazinet, Maxime Boisvert (...)

“The history of music is the history of its technological innovations” – Roman Rappak (RISTBAND)

After a successful presence at SXSW, immersive technology and creative studio Ristband just visited GITEX Africa, Morocco, where it presented its AI-Driven Immersive Concert. Recently, they headed to the Shanghai International Film Festival where their mixed reality concert and standalone