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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“Without making it autobiographical, I wanted to create an environment where universal memories could emerge” – Zoe Roellin (PERENNIALS)

Noticed last year on LUSTRATION and THE CHOICE, Zoé Roellin is a Swiss artist and illustrator based in Zurich. At Venice Immersive 2023, she presents PERENNIALS, a more personal work in 3D animation that plunges us into the memories of

Onassis ONX: chasing the dream of sustainable XR Presentations (TECHNE @ BAM)

Onassis ONX is leading the way in New York when it comes to XR presentations. Digging deeper through several interviews with founding members from Onassis ONX that had works presented during the first edition of TECHNE at BAM (Brooklyn Academy

Tribeca’s World Premiere WELCOME TO RESPITE will let you explore forgotten childhood memories in VRChat

Join us as Alex, a child with a troubled past, and journey through your memories to explore the parts of our mind that can both help and haunt us. Upon visiting your family’s home after your mom’s passing, you are

CUBAVERSO, a new XR workshop for XR narrative creators in Central America and the Caribbean islands

This is an historic event for Central America and the Caribbean islands: an in-person XR creation lab (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, video 360, video games, metaverse, AI and virtual worlds) in the city of Havana, Cuba, for 16

Villa Formose / DEEP ECOLOGY: a generative immersive map to explore the link between technology and ecology

XRMust is at the Kaohsiung Film Festival this year, covering the event and in particular its XR Dreamland section, at the invitation of the French Office in Taipei. It’s also an opportunity to take a look back at the teams

The XR Gallery, a virtual showcase for artworks and immersive experiences powered by Minsar Studio 2.0

Starting on January 21st, the XR gallery will open its (virtual) doors. A space dedicated to designers and artists to showcase their work in AR and VR. This breakthrough space of a new kind was designed to allow creative professionals,