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It’s been an extraordinarily busy week in Immersive-Ville.
What’s been going on? Well, SXSW kicked off in earnest this week as hordes of people visited the HBO/Mycotoo/Giant Spoon Game of Thrones activation Bleed for the Throne, which doubled as promotion for the last season of the hit TV show but also a blood drive for the American Red Cross. And the Tribeca Film Festival Immersive program for 2019 was released, featuring a number of 360-degree films and a variety of ground-breaking augmented, mixed, and virtual reality experiences in the Virtual Arcade. Disney announced the opening dates for Galaxy’s Edge for both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Nintendo is getting into the VR game through a Labo kit for the Nintendo Switch. Dziobak Larp Studio announced they were ceasing operations, effective immediately, leaving the fate of the popular College of Wizardry and some of their other LARP experiences uncertain. And our friends over at Odyssey Works announced both their next call for a participant and their next Master Class this summer.
On the NoPro side, we’ve got a great team of folks down in Austin taking in all of the immersive goodness during SXSW so keep an eye on our Instagram Stories for even more coverage. And we’ve got a bunch of new reviews and shows on the site this week! Wow!
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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 Sunday, April 14. Tickets are free with a small service charge; they go on sale April 7.
ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
From the halls of the Immersive Design Summit to your ears!
Guest hosts KJ Knies and Michaela Holland tag in to interview Fri Forjindam of Mycotoo, and we follow that up with an interview of Jenni Cook of Dreamscape Immersive by KJ.
It’s the first in what will be a handful of episodes emerging from the 2019 IDS.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Chicago: Jazz It!
Dallas: Rainbow Vomit (Remount)
Edmonton: Slight of Mind
LA: Precinct 187
NYC: Tribeca Film Festival Immersive: Virtual Arcade
Portland: Undine
Rochester, New York: Odyssey Works Odyssey and Masterclass
Salem, MA: Daemonologie: Blood and Bone (Remount)
Vancouver: Reverberations
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
‘Bottom’s Dream’ Turns Shakespeare Upside Down and Interactive (Review)A delightful but underdeveloped adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dreamnoproscenium.comA Reason for Being: Theatrical Poetry in Son of Semele’s ‘Mr. Crow’ (Review)A mostly traditional show features some intriguing immersive elementsnoproscenium.comThe Train-Themed ‘Passengers’ Struggles to Move Its Audience (The NoPro Review)The personal storytelling show relies too heavily on forced audience participationnoproscenium.comLive-Action Game ‘Bring Them Home’ Orbits Immersive But Never Touches Down (The NoPro Review)The space-themed experience probes the limits of gaming as immersive theatrenoproscenium.comInteractive Show ‘Block Association Project’ Reveals Everyday Truths (Review)Michael Yates Crowley and Michael Rau bring a neighborhood to lifenoproscenium.comImmersive Theatre Meets Escape Room in ‘Escape from Godot’ (The NoPro Review)Mister and Mischief succeed at remixing a classic while adding their own twist to both formsnoproscenium.comLooking for Reasons to Interact at ‘Teknopolis 2019’ (The NoPro Review)Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual festival of immersive and interactive art is a mixed bagnoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“In The Shed at Maze Rooms in Austin, we were chained to the walls (with safety releases) and each able to access only a corner of the small space, where we had to work together to escape this serial killer’s lair.”
“Master of Illusions, at Extreme Escape in San Antonio, was a beautiful escape room. It combined ambiance with puzzling. It all came together like magic.”
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Dziobak Larp StudiosDziobak Larp Studios is closing down operations effective immediately. Edit: Dziobak is NOT a corporation, but an…www.facebook.comMore than Meets the Eye: Announcing the Tribeca Immersive Lineup at Tribeca 2019 | TribecaThe 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, announced today that Tribeca Immersive, an incubator for innovation…www.tribecafilm.comStar Wars: Galaxy's Edge to Open May 31 at Disneyland Resort, August 29 at Disney's Hollywood…Minutes ago, we shared an exciting announcement many of you have been waiting to hear - Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is…disneyparks.disney.go.comFor The Throne: What Will You Do Before Season 8?The final season of Game of Thrones premieres in April, however before the final season approaches, we want to know how…www.forthethrone.comVR pioneer Jessica Brillhart is building inclusive virtual worldsJessica Brillhart has been innovating in VR since the technology's early days. A former principal filmmaker for Google…www.dazeddigital.comNintendo's really getting into VR with a Labo kit for SwitchThe last time Nintendo got close to VR was with the Virtual Boy back in 1995. Now, the Nintendo Switch is really, truly…www.cnet.comCall For Participants - Odyssey WorksWould you rather help make an Odyssey from the beginning? This is also an extraordinary opportunity for you to apply to…www.odysseyworks.org
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“In escape rooms, the longer a player or a group of players works within a space in isolation, the harder it becomes for teams to fully reintegrate… some thoughts on this issue is escape room design:”
From Laura E. Hall of Timberview Productions:
“The Immersive Book Club meets once a month to chat about the latest in our field. Info and selections at our site, sign up for the newsletter to receive show notes and streaming dates.”
“Erin Hawley (@geekygimp) looks at the current state of VR and its varying levels of inaccessibility for many disabled users, plus what advances are being made in the technology. ‘Naming the problem is the spark toward solutions’”:
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