A performance that takes place in VR and uses only born-digital, computer-generated visuals (e.g. animated avatars and procedural graphics).
The Void’s Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire was an immersive virtual reality experience that placed visitors inside the Star Wars universe. A clever wireless rig allowed guests to freely roam a large virtual space that is mapped onto a physical maze so that they could actually reach out and touch objects such as buttons, walls, seats, and droids.
“O, Rocks!” In a meaty delicacy that ignites the senses, David Bolger’s evocative response to Ulysses Episode 4 probes dual realities to create a highly original dance performance installation of unsettling, voluptuous beauty. Each audience member is taken on an intimate, deeply personal, multi-sensorial journey designed to linger long after they have left the landmark building of 42 Fairview Strand.
All Kinds of Limbo is a communal Virtual, Desktop and Augmented Reality experience featuring Nubiya Brandon & the Nushape Orchestra.
An audience of upto 20 people simultaneously join from anywhere in the world to watch a volumetrically captured performance scored by Raffy Bushman and performed by Nubiya Brandon. During the experience, the audience is able to move around the performance freely to view Nubiya perform from any angle as she takes them on a journey through classical, grime, reggae and calypso.
Where immersive theater meets VR. An intriguing multiplayer experience set between two worlds: a jaunty vaudeville stage and the harrowing survival narrative. Uncover the story of a ship stranded in time as supplies dwindle and day-by-day an otherworldly mist rolls closer. Follow characters’ interlocking fates as all journeys forward must turn back or become lost.
To Be With Hamlet is a live theatre performance in Virtual Reality that allows anybody anywhere to have an intimate experience with Hamlet, Shakespeare’s dramatic masterpiece. The experience enables audiences to walk the battlements of Elsinore Castle with Prince Hamlet as he confronts the ghost of his murdered father.
Off-Rail is a parody of a western-themed VR/AI theme park of the future where "nothing can go wrong". It is a collaboration by RaptorXR, an independent studio featuring the most experienced VR comedy improvisers in the world. This show offers the most audience agency of any VR performance ever made and dares you to take risks as our expert cast follows you..."Off Rail"!
Paar is a VR dance film split between a physical and virtual world. Filmed in the historic GDR-era Tieranatomisches Theater (TAT) at Berlin Charité hospital, Paar uses 360 video together with motion capture technology to follow a journey of discovery between linked bodies and theaters.
Anandala is a virtual, abstract art installation unconstrained by the limits of reality. Visitors explore through personal flight a vast three-dimensional labyrinth of evolving shapes and colours populated with intelligent artificial-life. These shapeshifting creatures express themselves and interact with visitors and each other through movement, changing color textures, and their own musical language. Anandala invites visitors to interact and connect with a variety of curious, friendly lifeforms and explore their natural habitat.
Planet Xerilia is an audio-driven, narrative, room-scale Virtual Reality (VR) experience for the Meta Quest 2. XR Stories and the University of York developed it to investigate new ways of storytelling using 3D binaural audio, interactivity, and VR.
‘The Neon Pack’ is a ‘Protopian Tale’ directed by Nick Bax. This immersive 360 experience by Human Studio interprets three scenes from the original short story by Nick Bax, featuring VR design and animation by Dan Fleetwood with additional design by Michaela White and an original soundtrack by 96 Back on CPU Records.
