The characters and landscape are representative of a fantasy world
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.
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.
Katy Perry's 2020 performance of her song Daises on American Idol uses extended reality and was a significant event in television due to its extensive use of many different shapes and angles. It was made during peak COVID-19 and so it was not viewed by a live audience. They used motion-graphic content and camera tracking in order to achieve this VR look.
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"!
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.
Three women. Three voices. The northern landscape.
Three stories open the world of the English northern landscape in virtual reality, what it means to come from it, live in it and belong to it.
Monoliths interweaves radiant renderings of three northern UK environments – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi. At once imaginative and immersive, this XR experience is an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place.
'A New Normal' is a short film created using Augmented Reality, that subverts the limitations of digital intimacy, to create a story about warmth, hope and family.
