Virtual Play is a reinterpretation of Play, with a view to engaging a 21st Century viewership that is increasingly accessing content via virtual reality (VR) technologies. It is V-SENSE’s inaugural creative arts/cultural project, under the creative technologies remit.
The Changing Same: An American Pilgrimage is an immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where participants travel through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial injustice in the United States.
Early in 2018 Google’s Creative Lab approached Opera Queensland and invited them to explore what might be possible if Augmented Reality (AR) were to become part of the process of staging an opera. The driving artistic question of the project would be: what would happen if we could step outside the traditional setting for opera and render an operatic performance in a user’s home? Could we make live performance more accessible – by offering everyone a front row seat – and at the same time allow a user to feel a deeper connection to the music and the performers?
