HACKING XR

Creators: Google Skillman Hackett Released: April 2016 VR Technology – HTC Vive Viewing System – Tethered VR While not quite a narrative, Google’s Tilt Brush is a magical experience that allows storytellers, designers and artists to take the space around them and transform it into a canvas where they can paint in 3D. Tilt Brush is the first VR experience I have tried outside simpler mobile VR experiences, and I was blown away by how intuitive and immersive it was. One of the

Creators: Collaboration between director Lynette Walworth and the Amazonian Yawanawa people January 2018 VR Technology: Lidar Scanner + 360 video (Nokia) Viewing System: Tethered VR Contemporary and ancestral spiritual technologies of vision unite in this 30 minutes non-fiction VR film, a bridge between worlds connected by Hushahu. The film follows Hushahu’s path as she becomes the first woman shaman of the Yawanawa community in the Amazon jungle, reconfiguring their social g

Released: January 2016 Creators: Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, James Spinney Format: 360 experience, 25min Viewing System: Gear VR, Oculus Notes on Blindness is a 360 immersive experience on what it feels like to go blind. The experience is guided by the audio diaries developed by theologist John Hull as a way to express his feelings and frustrations with regard to going blind. It is divided into various sections that explore Hull’s change on perception

Well fellow creators and pioneers, it's been a year already. I am eager to start on a new adventure! I have had the amazing opportunity to fill in the last months with events, festivals, discoveries of VR, AR, MR, XR experiences. I can't wait to share. And I can't wait to see the new and amazing line of guests for this upcoming semester! Just a tease of some of the people invited - they form part of the best VR content makers and shakers out there, some even rock Robert Redfo