Category: Choose VR
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Cirque du Soleil KÀ – The Battle Within (a VR Experience by Felix & Paul)
I’m a big Cirque du Soleil fan so I have been to 5 live productions and KÀ is my favorite one. That’s why I chose to watch the Cirque du Soleil KÀ VR Experience first. This is a 360 Degree 3D video recording of a few scenes from the production. With 360 Degree video you…
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Eli Roth’s Haunted House Trick-VR-Treat
For Halloween, I did something that terrifies me – I entered Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Horizon Worlds is a completely uncomfortable experience where you must interact in real time with real humans masquerading in nightmarish avatars. They can hear you and talk to you and the only way to escape is to go into a “bubble”,…
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Gloomy Eyes
This is one of my favorite narratives in VR! It’s a zombie love story with fantastic animation. It is like entering a Henry Selick Nightmare Before Christmas fantasy with dazzling colors (mostly blue and pink, with gold light from the sun). Humans and zombies coexist in a world with no light after the sun decides…
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A Philosophy for Branching Narratives
I’ve been thinking a lot about branching narratives lately as I finish up my proof of concept series pilot My (Blank) Dating Life and re-introduce the technique to my sci-fi ROOT. In the traditional Branching Narrative, think Bandersnatch or the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, you make this or that decision with wildly different…
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The Infinite: An Immersive Space Exploration
While on my vacation in Seattle, I went to this VR art exhibit: The Infinite. This project did exceed my expectations. It is a VR exhibit in a very large physical space where you are able to explore the International Space Station. After a brief overview, you step into a launch pad room where lights…
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Mindfield VR
Mindfield is a narrative short VR project about PTSD. It opens in a menacing, striped red prison type cylinder with an animated man on a stage. Then the story transitions to the kitchen of a house where the same man hears a crying child. His partner calls down to him that the baby might need…
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Wanderer
(Not to be confused with Wander, which is a google maps based experience where you can travel to almost any location on earth in VR) This is one of the most fantastic looking games I have played in VR. It is up there with Half Life: Alyx. The game was designed in the Unreal Engine…
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Tavern Experience (Comic-Con)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Comic-Con) Since this newsletter is focusing on San Diego Comic Con, I figured I would review one of the experiences from this event. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is an in person experience created to immerse you in the world of the new DnD movie. The entrance to…
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Awake, Episode 1
I was too busy watching the technical details that I only picked up a bit of the story. This is a recap, as I experienced it. A disabled man (not really disabled, my buddy Scott would not approve), grabs a metaphysical cube, dives into his own mind and manifests a world where a cleaned up…
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Wolves in the Walls, Chapter 1
This is one of my favorite VR narratives. It’s based on a Neil Gaimen book and the animation is just what you would want for a Neil Gaimen story. It’s gorgeous! You start off with a credit sequence where you are able to grab a flashlight and illuminate different credits. Then, the story starts. Lucy,…
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