Virtual Reality

https://turntablegallery.uk/theport.html

Description

The performance describes the life of the people who worked at The Great Grimsby Docks in the UK. It talks about the dangers of people who went missing or got lost at sea and the hardships and suffering of these working people in the 1930's.

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Medium/Technology

Projection Design

Type of Immersive Experience

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Queens University Belfast

Liveness

Live (Real-time)

Objective

Cultural Heritage

Historical

Mode of Audience Engagement

Dialogue

Listening

Watching

Select and grab objects

Tone

Mode of Expression

The Afters

Perf+Tech_Student — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:13:53 +0000

The Afters Perf+Tech_Student Sat, 21/02/2026 - 15:13

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent

Lucy Baxter

Creation Date

2025

Country/Origin

https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2026/vr-drama-to-educate-young-people-about-…

Description

The Afters is two interrelated VR narrative dramas told from the perspectives of a 17-year-old girl and boy. Designed primarily for schools, college and university students for relationships and sex education, this first-of-its-kind VR narrative will help inform young people on the subtleties of verbal and non-verbal communication regarding sexual consent. It also encourages conversations around empathy and awareness with peers to help them safely navigate intimate situations in the future.

Noteworthy Attributes

In qualitative interviews, 5 out of 28 (18%) pupils and students aged 16-20 said they had received what they perceived to be adequate RSE provision. All 28 young people said they would like to receive/have received this VR training as part of a broad RSE curriculum. Of 20 questionnaire respondents, 17 (85%) said they understood more about the internal experience of consent confusion after viewing the VR. Of 20 questionnaire respondents, 40% said the experience content was very consistent with their real world experience and 50% said it was moderately consistent

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Project URL

Medium/Technology

VR HMD

Type of Immersive Experience

Creation Technique

360 Video

Performance Genre

Liveness

Recorded (offline)

Objective

https://www.ntathome.com/ugly-lies-the-bone

Mode of Audience Engagement

Tone

Mode of Expression

Ugly Lies the Bone

Perf+Tech_Student — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:07:56 +0000

Ugly Lies the Bone Perf+Tech_Student Tue, 18/02/2025 - 13:07

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent

Lindsey Ferrentino

Creation Date

2015

Country/Origin

United States

Description

This play explores the role of virtual reality in the path to recovery from PTSD inflicted by experience in the military. The story follows Jess as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life, rebuilding her world aided by VR. The play explores the dichotomy between technology and the emotional human condition and the human desire for technological means of escapism.

The show employs advanced use of VR technology, creating a spectacular experience, paralleling the conventional theatre production with video designer Luke Hall's immersive VR design intertwined in production, exploring the ambiguous and complex boundary between the tangible and virtual spheres. There is also an immersive installation after the show for audiences to experience.

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Medium/Technology

Visual

Type of Immersive Experience

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Objective

https://strangerthings-experience.com/en/

Mode of Audience Engagement

Tone

Mode of Expression

Stranger Things: The Experience

Perf+Tech_Student — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:01:04 +0000

Stranger Things: The Experience Perf+Tech_Student Tue, 18/02/2025 - 13:01

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent

Netflix

Creation Date

2022

Country/Origin

United States

Description

An immersive experience based on the Netflix tv series Stranger Things, in collaboration with the discovery platform Fever. It was first released in New York and later also in: São Paulo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Atlanta, Paris, Toronto and Seattle. It is an immersive adventure with video elements, live performance and the audience is fully absorbed in the storyline.

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Medium/Technology

Screen (2D)

Type of Immersive Experience

Creation Technique

Performance Genre

Liveness

Live (Real-time)

Objective

Mode of Audience Engagement

Exploration

Tone

Spectacular

Mode of Expression

Expressionistic

The War of the Worlds - London Immersive Experience

Perf+Tech_Student — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:11:31 +0000

The War of the Worlds - London Immersive Experience Perf+Tech_Student Thu, 29/02/2024 - 15:11

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent

Layered Reality

Creation Date

2019

Country/Origin

https://thewaroftheworldsimmersive.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA84CvBhCaARIs…

Description

Get ready for a completely unique multi-sensory experience that transports you back to 1898 to experience a Martian invasion.

Live actors guide you through 24 interactive scenes enhanced with virtual reality and multi-sensory effects – all set to Jeff Wayne’s iconic score

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Medium/Technology

Situated Action (Live Performance)

Type of Immersive Experience

Creation Technique

Live Action

Performance Genre

Liveness

Live (Real-time)

Objective

Mode of Audience Engagement

Watching

Tone

Spectacular

Mode of Expression

Expressionistic

Within Touching Distance

Perf+Tech_Student — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:19:06 +0000

Within Touching Distance Perf+Tech_Student Mon, 26/02/2024 - 18:19

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent

ZU-UK

Creation Date

2023

Country/Origin

https://zu-uk.com/project/within-touching-distance/

Description

Exploring the importance of touch, the new show from leading digital performance innovators ZU-UK takes one audience member at a time through a journey from childhood to adulthood and old age through the medium of a bedtime routine. Within Touching Distance is a patient-led artwork, asking audiences to consider the ways that we interact at a sensory level with the world. At the start of the 35 minute production, audiences will put on a VR headset and be gently put to bed by a motherly figure, before being immersed in an interactive dreamscape narrated by a child, and finally experience a palliative care setting. Each stage asks us about the nature of touch and the comfort of human connection.

Project URL

Medium/Technology

Visual

Type of Immersive Experience

Creation Technique

360 Video

Performance Genre

Liveness

Recorded (offline)

Objective

https://md-eksperiment.org/en/post/20230828-the-ukrainian-project-first-day-wil…

Mode of Audience Engagement

Tone

Mode of Expression

First Day

grahamm5 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 11:06:07 +0000

First Day grahamm5 Tue, 05/09/2023 - 12:06

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent

Valeriy Korshunov

Svitlana Korshunova

Creation Date

2023

Country/Origin

Ukraine

Description

FIRST DAY is a fully immersive first-person VR experience that transports the visitor to the situation of the first day of the unexpected war attack. It allows you to experience the internal transformation that Ukrainians went through on February 24, 2022.

"We want to share the experience of the first day of the war with a wide audience who, like us, once did not believe that such a thing was possible in their lives. This experience is about what allows Ukrainians to resist today, when everyone expected that we would not last even 3 days. FIRST DAY tells about the inner transformation that we personally went through. About what allowed humanity to survive in the most terrible times of history - about helping each other, about one's own choice not to be a victim of circumstances, but to be someone who can help. We are not the first who had to go through this experience and, unfortunately, not the last," says project director Valeriy Korshunov.

The project is based on the stories of real people, in it you can see the houses of Borodyanka and Buchi, which were bombed by the occupiers. Together with a large number of artifacts of the war, they were scanned and further reproduced in virtual space.

Valery Korshunov, known for his projects about Chornobyl, began filming and scanning the consequences of the war in the summer of 2022, for preservation, memorialization, and the subsequent opportunity for others to visit these places in person, in virtual reality. Modern technologies already allow it to be done photo-realistically, so immersive projects are one of the most progressive directions of cinema.

FIRST DAY project became the winner of the 2023 Biennale Cinema College. The project went through several stages of selection and work with VR and film industry experts and mentors, as a result of which it received a grant for implementation and the opportunity to be presented at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in 2023.

"We are incredibly grateful to the Biennale Cinema College for the opportunity to implement and present the project about the war in Ukraine at the jubilee Venice International Film Festival. FIRST DAY is just the beginning of a big project that will memorialize our war and tell the stories of our people around the world. But it is very important, it will increase the level of empathy and understand us better, to see the history and destinies of the people behind each destroyed house," says Svitlana Korshunova, the project's producer.

It is known that Korshunov's team is also working on the VR Borodyanka, VR Hostomel, and VR Chornobyl projects, each of which will use different storytelling technologies and formats.

Project URL

Medium/Technology

VR HMD

Type of Immersive Experience

Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI)

Creation Technique

Performance Genre

Liveness

Objective

Ethical

Taiwan, Province of China

Political

Mode of Audience Engagement

Tone

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Free UR Head

grahamm5 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:24:29 +0000

Free UR Head grahamm5 Thu, 10/08/2023 - 10:24

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent

Chou Tung-Yen

狠劇場 Very Theatre

Creation Date

2023

Country/Origin

Description

Free UR Head is an accessible dance experience that uses VR to create instant group choreographies through the participation of its audience.

Taiwanese theatre and film director Chou Tung-Yen earned his stripes for his cross-border approach, his inventive use of new media, and the unexpected angles he takes on his subjects. This time he wants to take a step back from what happens inside the VR goggle, and wonders about the real physical repercussions outside of it. The result is Free UR Head, a tool for instant VR-conducted group choreographies.

Virtual reality, dance, gaming. By mixing all of these genres, Chou engages in an experiment on the adaptability of traditional art forms to new technologies. A search for how these artistic expressions can reinforce each other’s connecting power.

But above all, the project is a product of his curiosity for human-technology interactions. How will teenagers and seniors react to the work differently? How to conduct the viewer’s movements only by using visual and auditory hints, in order for them to become performers? What are the possibilities? And what are the pitfalls?

Free UR Head is an invitation to get together and enjoy dance: in real public spaces and in a digital world, where we seem to be alone and isolated, but which is also able to connect and synchronize.

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Project URL

https://www.vmstudio.tw/vm-theatre

Between Being Asleep and Awake

grahamm5 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:10:48 +0000

Between Being Asleep and Awake grahamm5 Thu, 10/08/2023 - 10:10

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent

Chou Tung-Yen

Chou Shu-Yi

狠劇場 Very Theatre

Creation Date

2013

Country/Origin

Taiwan, Province of China

Description

It is developed from the extension and development of the dance video of the 2013 World Theater Design Award work "Empty Memory". In cooperation with dancer Zhou Shuyi, through the surround view camera, several dance images in an almost surreal space are shot, connecting a journey between sleeping and waking. When the surround view lens no longer has the ability of active capture, but a comprehensive shooting record, the relationship between body and space is instantly magnified. The circular arc and the boundless horizon attempt to dialectically co-exist with the closeness and alienation of the inner flow and the outer world under the flow and change of space.

of One's Own extend Chou Tung-Yen's interdisciplinary work Emptied Memories and the experimental dancing images developed by the long-term collaboration between Chou Tung-Yen and Chou Shu-Yi.

Between Being Asleep and Awake depicts the journey between the states of falling asleep and waking up through several nearly surreal dance images taken by a panoramic camera. When the panoramic camera has the ability to comprehensively record but not actively capture images, the relationship between body and space is suddenly strengthened and magnified. Through the flow and variation of spaces and with the arc-shaped and boundless vision, this work seeks to indicate that the closeness and the estrangement between the inner dynamics and the external world coexist.

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https://www.vmstudio.tw/between-being-asleep-and-awake

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Projection Design

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