So much happening this week. So much. Oculus announced what experiences will be available on the Quest at launch. Magic Leap announced their Games of Thrones experience. Ubisoft told us about their new VR escape room set in the Assassin’s Creed world. A few Disney Imagineers spoke about their approach to participation and world-building at GDC.
As for NoPro, we played in the world of Just Fix It Productions’ The Willows for the podcast, asked the fine folks at Immersive Gatsby about adapting the show for deaf and blind audiences, interviewed some of the folks exhibiting at the upcoming Tribeca Immersive, released our video interview with David Wally of Mycotoo about their work on #SXSWesteros, reported on all the immersive activations at SXSW, reviewed some fascinating immersive productions, and also put out a huge number of show announcements this week.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
On this very special episode, No Proscenium accepts an invitation into the home of a ‘The Willows.’
Special thanks to Melinda DeKay, Misha Reeves, and Daniel Montgomery of Just Fix It Productions for helping us unravel the threads.
SAVE THE DATE
Our own Noah J. Nelson will be giving a talk at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books happening April 13–14 on the USC campus in Los Angeles, California.
Check out The Art of Presence: Into an Immersive Future at 12pm on April 14. Tickets are free and become available on April 7.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Open Call: XR Stories of the Future
Atlanta: Otherworld Encounter; Murder! at the Strand II — Dark Matters
Boston: Happy Place
DC: Under(world)
Detroit: Space Dive
Miami: AMPARO; Wynwood Stories
Minneapolis: POP!
LA: The Reality X: Welcome Home; Time Travel Cabaret; Tales by Candlelight; The Guest & The Host: Make Music (Trio Sessions)
NYC: Rainier Falls (Spring Premiere); Lucidian (Playtest)
Pittsburgh: The Stray
Purchase, NY: The Dream Factory: The 60 Most Fascinating People
Toronto: ERASER; Leonardo’s Last Supper
Vancouver: rEvolver Festival
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
Light Your Own Story with ‘Tales By Candlelight’ (Review)Walk the Night and Cantrip Candles team up for a collaborative storytelling experiencenoproscenium.comPermission to Vanish in Kathaleen Amende’s ‘Fade’ (Review)Finding my ‘Valentine’ in Sinking Ship Creations’ latest experiencenoproscenium.comGo Through Mourning with ‘The Church of the Sturdy Virgin’ (Review)Dank Parish knocks ’em dead with their immersive, funereal productionnoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
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“SCRAP, the creators of the escape room, have once again created a unique escape game structure clever enough that it could be a genre unto itself. Spellbound Supper used a combination of real life objects, projection, and a Microsoft Kinect to allow us to gesture and interact with the projected items.”
“EscapeSF’s Space Bus was a retired school bus transformed into a spaceship… and a beautiful one at that. If you’re interested in mobile escape rooms, this is a must-play.”
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Game of Thrones Fans ‘Bleed for the Throne’ at #SXSWesteros (Video)HBO teamed up again with Giant Spoon & Mycotoo for a large-scale activation, with a philanthropic twistnoproscenium.comAdapting ‘Immersive Gatsby’ for Deaf and Blind Audiences (Q&A)An interview with Gatsby site manager Golfo Migos and audio describer Jane Ensellnoproscenium.comStorytelling and Technology Intersect at Tribeca Immersive (Q&A)An interview with curator Loren Hammonds of Tribeca Film Festivalnoproscenium.comA Collective Experience in VR with ‘CAVE’ (Q&A)The new XR startup Parallux aims to solve the throughput problemnoproscenium.comGetting Immersed at SXSW 2019Brand activations took fans into the worlds of ‘Good Omens,’ ‘The Highwaymen,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ and morenoproscenium.comThe Importance of Detail in Virtual SpacesThe best virtual spaces offered materiality, texture, levels, lighting, colors and more.medium.comDisney Parks Attraction Creators Compare Crafting Video Games With Real-World ExperiencesBuilding a playful, inviting experience in a Disney theme park is far from easy, and it's also surprisingly similar to…variety.comThe Dead Must Die | Magic LeapGame of Thrones (GoT) comes to Magic Leap One as part of an exclusive in-store collaboration with AT&T and Magic Leap…www.magicleap.comUbisoft's Blue Byte unveils VR escape room Beyond Medusa's GateYou may have heard about escape rooms, where a group of people is locked in a room for fun and they figure out puzzles…venturebeat.comOculus Debuts All-New Quest Games Trailer At PAX East, Revealing Forthcoming Titles (VIDEO)Following announcements earlier today at PAX East, Oculus launches Quest games trailer with big forthcoming game…www.forbes.comRecommendations on VR Environmental Design (Part 1)Insights from experts in architecture, retail, interior design, and hospitalitymedium.comMagic Leap heads to AT&T stores, along with AR Game of Thrones experienceWesteros will show up in augmented reality, if you happen to be in Boston, Chicago or San Francisco. AT&T has announced…www.cnet.comImmersive theatre show Variant 31 postpones opening to September 2019 | WhatsOnStageThe show will eventually take place in the tailor-made immersive theatre venue Space 18www.whatsonstage.comDeveloper Perspective: GDC 2019 Learnings | OculusAs there are obviously a million things to do, see and learn at GDC, we thought it would be a great idea to collaborate…developer.oculus.comGarage Stories X Institute for the FutureEdit descriptionwww.garagestories.orgWOW Festival 2019 - La Jolla PlayhouseLA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE 2019 WITHOUT WALLS (WOW) FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE AT ARTS DISTRICT LIBERTY STATION Fourth Biennial…lajollaplayhouse.orgTeaching With NYT Virtual Reality Across SubjectsGuest Lesson In late 2015, The New York Times released the Since then, The Times has published dozens of films that use…www.nytimes.comPaul Allen's immersive Holodome gets interactive with new zombie-hunting game that founder testedIn the months since Vulcan, Inc., placed its Holodome inside Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture, 38,000 people have…www.geekwire.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“Ticket sales for Escape Immerse Explore: The Palace close on Wednesday, April 10. If you’re interested in traveling to San Francisco to play some of the most impressive escape rooms in the United States, buy your tickets today! There are only a few left.”
“Most escape room interactions can be improved by making them bigger.”
From Kellian Adams Pletcher, Green Door Labs:
“Museums and the Web will be in #Boston this year! Our Immersive arcade will have immersive, interactive pieces connected to art, history and culture such as Escape From Marseilles by Sinking Ship Creations, Who is R Mutt by Celia Pearce and Tracking Ida by Lishan AZ!”
“The Playable Theater Project is uniting theater people and game designers, improv comedians, artists, designers, professionals and hobbyists around the cause of new immersive, interactive theater projects. Can’t wait to see what people in Boston will build next!”
From Laura E. Hall of Timberview Productions:
“In the early days of the internet, Blair Witch Project and its expanded universe went viral before ‘going viral’ was a thing. Toeing the line between reality and fiction, they forged a path for narrative and marketing that’s still followed 20 years later.”
From Kent Bye of the Voices of VR podcast:
“There’s a call for entries for an immersive Opera that’s being developed in Finland with a 75,000 Euro prize. It’s themed ‘Memories of the Future.’ Apply by April 15th.”
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