We took two weeks off and soooo much happened.
For starters: the HERE Summit now, officially, has a Pilot Festival.
Coming to Pasadena March 27–29th, the Summit brings together the leaders of immersive art & entertainment from around the globe. It will also give 3-day badge holders a chance to check out a slew of work: Escape From Godot, Koryn Ann Wick’s Casting, Stashhouse LA, plus new work from the Speakeasy Society for starters.
There will also be all-new short form work from Siobhan O’Loughlin, Candle House Collective, and Keight Leighn.
And this is just the beginning of the Festival announcements. There are more to come in the weeks ahead.
PLUS: Our 2019 Immersive Audience Survey is still open. It’s a critical part of the next Immersive Industry Report!
Okay… let’s get into what we’ve missed since the last edition!
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HERE SUMMIT & Festival — Pasadena — March 27–29, 2020
The next great gathering of the immersive creative community.
Pre-Registration & 3-Day Badge Sales Now Open
ON THE PODCAST
Warning: both contain lots of swearing, as we’re drunk!
The team gets together for the first time in a long while, and then we add beer and whiskey to the mix and…
Anyway, join Noah, Anthony, Kathryn, and Kevin for the first of four parts. Then Blake gets added to the mix.
We’ll be dropping parts III & IV next week on the main feed, and a special Rise of Skywalker bonus episode with Zay and Noah into the Patreon feed (but open to all) over the weekend.
Take a break from the chaos of the world and return to earlier in the week, when life was simple!
The second half of our end of the year/beginning of the year roundtable with Anthony, Kathryn, Kevin, beer, and Noah.
Beer Notes:
Enegren Belgian Dark Strong Ale 5th Anniversary edition. (Moorpark, CA)
Bruery Terreux’s Tart of Darkness (2016, Placentia, CA — we get this one wrong!)
Brewery Ommegang Valar Morghulis Dubble Ale (Cooperstown, NY)
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
NYC: Show Up, Kids! (New Dates), Whisperlodge NYC Winter ’20, Chaos Theory (2020 Dates), Exponential Festival, The Shadow over Bushwick: A Call of Cthulhu Immersive Experience, Aerobanquets RMX (Extension), Calculations, Dungeons & Dragons, Museum of Ice Cream
Baltimore: See Also,
Miami: Miami Motel Stories: North Beach
Chicago: Nevermore Park (EXTENDED)
Denver: Recipe
Portland, OR: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
SF Bay: Val-U-Mart, The End of You,
Paso Robles: Field of Light at Sensorio (Extended)
LA: Dragons Flight Academy, The Fortune Teller, THREE, Here the Birds Burn: A Phantasmagoria Revival, Temp Cupid
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COMMUNITY
NYC: No Proscenium/Room Escape Artist/Everything Immersive MeetupA gathering of fans and creators alikenoproscenium.comRECONEscape room conventions should be as fun, collaborative, and immersive as the games we discuss. We are producing a new…www.realityescapecon.com
REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
Earn Your Wings — ‘DreamWorks Dragons Flight Academy’ Takes Us to New Heights (Review)Dreamscape Immersive gives us dragons all our ownnoproscenium.comThe Future of Humanity is ‘In Many Hands’ (Review)Kate McIntosh reminds us of the value of caring for one anothernoproscenium.com‘Amahl and The Night Visitors’ Tries to Breathe New Life to a Creaky Libretto (NoPro Notes)On Site Opera brings an old story into a modern light to mixed resultsnoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
We recommend The Heist, a puzzley, quirky, and unique, art heist escape room at Red Fox Escapes in Cambridge, MA, close to the RECON convention venue.
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Punk Rules the World in ‘BattleScar’ (Feature)How the VR film by Martin Allais and Nico Casavecchia found its voicenoproscenium.comPicks of the Week (1/9/20—1/15/20)Something stirs in the crob pitnoproscenium.comA Decade In MomentsThe NoPro team shares their defining moments from the 2010'snoproscenium.comThese Immersive Moments—The 2010's in ReviewSix scenes in immersive that defined my decadenoproscenium.comNoPro’s Best Shows & Experiences of 2019Looking back on the best productions of the yearnoproscenium.comNoPro’s Top Moments of 2019Immersive is all about that moment a memory is madenoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Room Escape Artist announced their 5th Annual Golden Lock Award winners. This award goes to their favorites escape rooms they played in 2019.
Looking for an escape room in Denver, Colorado? Here’s our list of the best escape rooms to visit.
From Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor, No Proscenium:
HBO, Giant Spoon, and Mycotoo made a splash at a dinner they held at CES in Las Vegas this week to promote season 3 of Westworld. The mysterious invite asked questions like “Do you dread making everyday choices?” and “Have you ever experienced guilt after eating an animal product?” Attendees found themselves at a party thrown by Incite, a fictional company from the hit TV show, complete with actors who had memorized facts attendees had posted publicly to social media, sometimes bringing up years-old tweets in conversation.
Mashable found it an “insightful vision of the future” while CNet thought the event was actually the “least dystopian thing at CES this year.”
The most insightful vision of the future at CES came from HBO's 'Westworld'When media folks received a cryptic invite to an HBO Westworld experience at CES, we knew we were in for it. But no one…mashable.comHBO's Westworld dinners were the least dystopian thing at CESHBO's sci-fi series took a crack at predetermining my future at CES. In Westworld's vision, I live to be 103 and eat…www.cnet.com
Leon Barillaro, the game designer of Future Proof’s UCC Omega, wrote a behind-the-scenes look at how the interactive “convention” experience was structured.
From Will Cherry, XR Correspondent for NoPro:
Job Simulator is the second VR title to go Platinum! I’m sure you know.
Oh! The Remedy. It’s a free story in Oculus Quill Theater for Quest. The whole thing was animated in Quill by Daniel Martin Peixe, and pretty darn amazing for a free short. It came out late last month but I encourage anyone to see it in Quest. That being said, some camera movement choices are not for beginners to VR. You might find yourself losing balance. But it’s a great display of pacing and beautiful art.
Dan Franke also recreated a scene from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse using Quill! Check it out for free in the Quill Theater for Quest.
From Michael Andersen of ARGN:
Starting on Friday January 17th at noon, hundreds of puzzlers from around the world will converge in Boston for the annual MIT Mystery Hunt. Yay puzzles!
From Haley E.R. Cooper of Strange Bird Immersive:
An effective tool for immersive actors to foreshadow engagement.
THE DISCOURSE
Discussions and posts from Everything Immersive & Twitter:
Enter Ghost: China's Growing Obsession With Immersive PlaysLIAONING, Northeast China - A man in ragged clothes peers through a crack in the window of a brick house, inside which…www.sixthtone.comThe Future of The Séance - Cross Roads Escape GamesThe Séance is an interactive theatre experience written and directed by Madison Rhoades, and ran from Oct. 3rd- Nov…crossroadsescapegames.comDon’t get stuck in the hot tubObservations of user behavior in VR environmentsmedium.com
PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
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