HACKING XR

“My Mother’s Wing,” an eight minute VR experience created by Gabo Arora and Ari Palitz takes place in Gaza and shows a mother after losing two of her children to a shelling on their school while they were using it as a UN shelter. It was released by the UN at an event in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2016. After the release, the creator and a local UN worker wandered the streets with Samsung VR headsets to show Israeli citizens the piece. They hoped that it would change how they think

The Martian VR Experience is an interactive and immersive virtual reality adventure where viewers are stranded on Mars from fictional astronaut Mark Watney’s point of view. The experience was released in 2016 and is based of the 2015 movie The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott. The experience is executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Robert Stromberg. It debuted at CES 2016 (January) but was released officially on Nov 15, 2016. The experience itself a mix of an in