What all has been happening in Immersive-Land this week? Tribeca Film Festival’s ever popular Virtual Arcade opened to the public on Friday, showcasing 22 different innovative AR and VR exhibits. The Arcade will be open through May 4 but tickets are already sold out. See all of our coverage on our Tribeca hub and follow us on Instagram for more to come!
Meanwhile, Childish Gambino released a multiplayer AR experience together with Google. Magic Leap announced it would be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition headsets with Epic Games. Entertainment Weekly visited the set of the upcoming Lion King remake, which happens to be shot entirely in VR (!). Peter Rubin wrote about how the true innovation in VR is not tech but other humans in Wired. And the Royal Shakespeare Company talked to Variety about how Magic Leap and video games are changing the course of their future. VR meets theatre! Theatre meets games! All the stuff we love, and more!
As for us, we joined the resistance against the Nazis, went to a party gone terribly wrong, revisited the land of Oz, and found a thoroughly modern and refreshing take on some star-crossed lovers. We also interviewed creators working across virtual reality, site-specific dance, remote theatre, immersive theatre for pre-teens, and so much more.
And on the podcast this week, we also got a peek into the immersive programming coming to the Overlook Film Festival in late May, which includes some familiar names and faces.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Friend of the show Landon Zakheim and host Noah Nelson head to a park on a sunny Easter Sunday to talk about horror… um, kinda?
We dive into the immersive lineup at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival, which is full of fun surprises this May 30th — June 2nd in New Orleans.
Plus: Noah has some personal news.
Also: check out the LEIA Immersive Intensive, and a Behind The Scenes essay from Peter Billington of Fable on working with Third Rail Projects on ‘Wolves in the Walls’ currently at Tribeca!
TRIBECA IMMERSIVE
NYC: SAVE THE DATE!
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Austin: The Rain Sessions
Dallas: EarthXInteractive at the Earthx2019 Expo
Denver: The Last Defenders
LA: The Kansas Collection: Chapter 10 — The Portal
NYC: Madame Ovary; The Other Side; Convention; The Continental; Bucolic; Last Audience (In-Progress Showing); Voiding the Void; The Un-making of Toulouse-Lautrec; Paul Swan is Dead and Gone; Made in America; Van Gogh Find Yourself
Philadelphia: Last Audience (In-Progress Showing)
Salt Lake City: dreamscapes
SF: Mad Kingdom II: The Famished Games
Turners Falls, MA: Radical Interconnectedness Festival
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
Join the Resistance in ‘For King and Country: 1944’ (Review)Parabolic Theatre’s WWII experience returns with a sequel set four years laternoproscenium.comLearning to Be a Good Guest and Host in ‘Invited’ (Review)Rock Dance collective’s latest explores our best and worst impulsesnoproscenium.com‘The Storm’ Breaks, And The Table Is Set (Review)LA’s Speakeasy Society winds up to bring ‘The Kansas Collection’ homenoproscenium.comA Lesson on Inclusion at ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (The NoPro Review)A fresh take by Educational Mobile Immersive Theatre in NYC favors diversity and creativitynoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“Cincinnati’s Escape Room Family was a testament to the power of structure. By splitting the game into two 30-minute segments, shifting the objective, and putting a us in a bright and friendly environment, Castle Adventure felt like an entirely different experience… even though it was very much an escape room.”
“Disco 54 at Unreal Escapes on Staten Island was all about atmosphere and fun. The look. The music. The theme. All of it.”
“3D Escape Room: Frequency was an audio drama with escape room puzzles built in so listeners could solve along at home. It felt a lot like playing a tabletop escape game, but with podcast tracks instead of envelopes and tactile puzzles.”
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Behind the Scenes: How We Made ‘Wolves in the Walls’ VR with Third Rail ProjectsFable’s Peter Billington writes about their collaboration with the immersive theatre companynoproscenium.comExploring Power and Connection Through VR with ‘The Collider’ (Q&A)A conversation with Anagram’s Amy Rose and May Adulla about the two-person interactive encounternoproscenium.comCreating Ephemeral Moments with ‘moonlight serenade’ (Q&A)An interview with Candle House Collective founder Evan Neidennoproscenium.comExperience History through Site-Specific Dance in ‘Within These Walls’ and ‘Dreams of Flight’ (Q&A)We speak to Artistic Director Lenora Lee of Lenora Lee Dance Companynoproscenium.comAn Immersive Experience For and About Pre-Teens with ‘ERASER’ (Q&A)An interview with co-creators Bilal Baig and Sadie Epstein-Finenoproscenium.comExploring The World, Virtually: A Look At EarthX’s Interactive Programming in Dallas (Q&A)“The world’s largest Earth Day Celebration” turns to the virtual.noproscenium.comThe Overlook Film Festival Returns with a Jam-Packed LineupThis year’s festival touts its biggest immersive lineup yet.noproscenium.comMagic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic's $100M Unreal MegaGrantsAt Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap…www.roadtovr.comMeet The Women In VR At The Tribeca Film FestivalAt this year's Tribeca Film Festival, women are taking center stage - particularly in the realm of immersive…www.refinery29.comChildish Gambino brings fans into his immersive universe with Unity - Unity BlogPHAROS AR by Childish Gambino is the world's first cross-platform, multiplayer AR music experience, and it's now…blogs.unity3d.comVR's True Innovation Isn't Technological, It's HumanI've never seen anything in VR quite as realistic as this car. It's like something out of the future, all chrome and…www.wired.comHow theatre is embracing the virtual reality ageDoes the future of theatre lie in virtual reality? New productions at London's National Theatre suggest the most…www.creativereview.co.ukInside 'The Lion King,' Disney's rule-breaking beast of a remakeThe elephant in the room is that there's no elephant in the room. Or lion, hyena, or zebra, for that matter. In fact…ew.comHow Magic Leap, Video Games Are Defining Future of Royal Shakespeare CompanyAt the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon, Sarah Ellis has the difficult job of figuring out where…variety.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“We’re excited about students entering themed entertainment design. In this year’s Themed Entertainment Association’s National Design Competition students were given 7 weeks to design and build an original 500-square-foot escape room. The finals were live streamed on Friday 4/26. We encourage folks working in escape rooms and immersive theatre to check out more the program and this event.”
From Kent Bye of the Voices of VR podcast:
From Laura E. Hall of Timberview Productions:
“There’s a new episode of the History Respawned podcast about new branching narrative game Heaven’s Vault, archaeology, and ancient languages. Much food for thought for anyone interested in worldbuilding and environmental design.”
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