Welcome to our second edition of CALL SHEET, a roundup of gigs, grants, deadlines, and other professional opportunities in the realms of physical and digital immersive.
If you have an opportunity, email us at callsheet@noproscenium.com. Note: while we are happy to receive the full text of a job listing, we only publish summaries with links to the full job listings. To be considered your listing must be published somewhere else online.
Calls for festival entries, however, are eligible for being published on our newswire, as well as included in. Use the callsheet email, above. (Educational workshops should follow the process for event listings at Everything Immersive.)
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JOBS (Creative & Production)
Los Angeles
Game Designer for Digital Scavenger Hunt Game
Ravel
Listing Link
Ravel is collaborating with a growing number of narrative tabletop and/or “digital scavenger hunt” game designers on an on-going basis. We’re looking to connect with experienced and passionate creators enthusiastic about using puzzle design and other sorts of gameplay to create compelling interactions between players and with a full and complete story. Upcoming
collaborations are based on a pre-existing story world, bible and structure but creators are given a wide range to showcase their unique styles and skillsets. Some digital technologies can also be used in experience design. Fully integrated narrative & puzzle/game design creators preferred.
Los Angeles based candidates preferred but open to those willing to relocate.
Redmond, WA
Senior Designer
AltspaceVR/Microsoft
Full Time
Full benefits
In Mixed Reality, people — not devices — are at the center of everything we do. Our technology moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together — whether that’s scientists “meeting” on the surface of a virtual Mars or some yet undreamt-of possibility. To get there, we’re incorporating groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more.
We’re a growing team of talented engineers, program managers and artists putting technology on a human path, across all Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, the Internet of Things, phones, tablets, desktops, and Xbox. Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, previous work histories, life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. Our varied backgrounds and unique experiences enable us to be better at building the best solutions for our customers and make for dynamic and joyful collaborations with colleagues!
Software Engineer
AltspaceVR/Microsoft
Full Time
Full benefits
As an AltspaceVR generalist engineer on a small client engineering team, you will have a direct impact on the end user experience. You will be modifying and extending multiple core gameplay systems such as VR and 2D control schemes, props, UI, audio, telemetry, and user generated content. You may also have a chance to improve the artist pipeline, support new platforms, improve overall performance. You’ll be working and sitting together with a great team of designers, artists, engineers and dreamers, all working to bring the dream of social VR to life.
JOBS (Non-Production)
Los Angeles
Marketing Manager, Customer Engagement & Retention
Ravel
Full Time
Includes competitive pay & comprehensive medical benefits.
Listing Link
Experience developers Ravel — creators of the hit ‘‘Vampire.Pizza” and additional at-home brands coming in 2021 — is growing its boutique, dedicated executive team by adding a Marketing Manager focused on Customer Engagement & Retention. Ravel is changing how and why families eat at home by developing, producing and delivering holistic theme park adventures right to the dinner table. Our immersive meal-meets-entertainment experiences are one-half tabletop, one-half digital.
GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
North Carolina
Immersive Storytelling Residency Program
Media + Emerging Technology Lab (METL) (Link)
Term: May 1 to Nov. 1, 2021
Location: UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Includes $3500 monthly stipend
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As one of the few immersive labs in the country to be housed in a professional arts conservatory, METL is uniquely situated to train and serve as a resource for the next generation of creative innovators. For each METL residency there will be three participants selected with complementary skill sets: a game developer, a technical artist and a screenwriter/producer.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
(Festivals Deadlines, Gallery RFPs, etc.)
40th Vancouver International Film Festival
Submissions now open for VIFF Immersed in five categories :
- Virtual Reality — Cinematic Live Action
- Virtual Reality — Animation
- Virtual Reality — Documentary
- Augmented Reality — Live Action / Animation / Documentary
- Virtual & Augmented Reality — BC Showcase
Early Deadline: April 23, 2021
Regular Deadline: May 28, 2021
Late Deadline: June 11, 2021
The Vancouver International Film Festival is inviting immersive storytellers from around the world to submit their narrative-driven VR and AR content to the International VIFF Immersed Competition.
The VIFF Immersed Competition rewards creative achievements in commercially distributable VR and AR storytelling from live-action, documentary and animation. Competition finalists will be showcased at the VIFF Immersed Exhibition — a celebration of the best in immersive storytelling from Canada and around the world, taking place across several online XR platforms during VIFF 2021, September 30 — October 10.
Request For Proposals: Activating Smithsonian Open Access
Cooper Hewitt’s Interaction Lab
Up to six finalists will be chosen
Grant Award: $10,000
Deadline:Feb. 23, 2021, 11:59pm EST
The Activating Smithsonian Open Access Challenge (ASOA) from Cooper Hewitt’s Interaction Lab aims to support creative technology teams in designing engaging interactive experiences with Smithsonian Open Access collections for people all over the globe. Made possible by Verizon 5G Labs, this open call for proposals seeks to stimulate new ideas for inspiring digital interactions with over 3 million 2D and 3D objects in the Smithsonian’s Open Access collections, all available under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license for download, re-use, alteration, and even commercialization.
Cyber Shorts: A VR Film Festival
Submissions for the second annual film festival presented in AltSpace
Accepting: short films (15 min or less) for screening in AltSpace VR.
Festival Dates: May 1, 2021
Deadline: February 1, 2021.
Late deadline:March 1, 2021.
Official selections will be notified by April 5, 2021.
Cyber Shorts: A VR Film Festival returns for its second year. Festival Co-directors Darryl A. Armstrong and Shahab Zargari developed the idea to launch a film festival using the AltspaceVR platform early on during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. While that initial festival was quickly put together, it turned out to be a huge success with 19 films screened to an audience of over three-hundred attendees. It was covered by Movie Maker Magazine and winners were interviewed by the Feelin’ Film Podcast.
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