It’s our favorite time of the week — time for everything immersive that happened over the last seven days! What was up in Immersive-ville? Well, Secret Cinema talked to The Stage about their latest experience based upon Casino Royale. Apple announced a bunch of ARKit features at WWDC including people occlusion, motion capture, and more, and Microsoft demoed the Minecraft Earth augmented experience at the conference, as well! The Oculus Quest continues to sell well according to reports from Amazon. TodayTix released some statistics, including one that sales of immersive theatre performances grew 600% from 2016 to 2018 globally on their ticketing platform. And we learned about how the film Groundhog Day influenced the narrative design in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
As for us, we here at NoPro reviewed a fast food-sponsored experiential marketing pop-up, the final chapter of the Speakeasy Society’s Kansas Collection, an interactive one-man show at an art museum, a digital art center in Paris, and a “museum of memories” at Wildrence in NYC.
We have also started our reporting on the Overlook Film Festival with the latest episode of the podcast starring Noah and Cara (with so much more to come).
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Join NoPro’s Senior AV Content Producer/Festival Correspondent Cara Mandel and Founder Noah Nelson as they trade notes on the 2019 Overlook Film Festival Game All of Them Witches, plus some notes on the festival’s other immersive offerings.
OUR GUIDE TO HOLLYWOOD FRINGE IMMERSIVE
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
National (Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Toronto, DC): 29Rooms
Austin: The Group
Denver: Giovanna’s
LA: The Assassination of Edgar Allen Poe (Remount); DAD: A PATERNAL IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE; I Love You So Much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH
Milwaukee: Underground Railroad Escape
NYC: AFTERPARTY: The Rothko Studio; River to River Festival; NOIRTOWN; Balls; 125th and FREEdom; The Angel’s Share; Happily Ever After; Libraría: Stanzas
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REVIEWS
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Fast Food Fails at Immersive with ‘Jack’s House of Crunch’ (Review)You either die a weirdo or live long enough to see everything you love co-opted by brandsnoproscenium.comA Vision of the Future of Art at the Atelier Des Lumières (Review)Shining a light on the digital, immersive art center in Parisnoproscenium.com‘The Portal’ to the Kansas Collection Has Closed (The NoPro Review)The Speakeasy Society sends their long running series out on a high notenoproscenium.comThe Unconventional ‘Van Gogh Find Yourself’ Hasn’t Quite Found Itself Yet (Review)The interactive show connectes, but struggles to maximize its uniquenessnoproscenium.comA Rich and Complicated ‘Inheritance’ (The NoPro Review)The Inheritance Project begins its exploration of why we are who we are through an immersive performancenoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
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“If you love dinosaurs, check out this room at Escaparium in Montreal.”
“The Underground Bar at Sauve Qui Peut in Montreal opened as a fairly traditional puzzle-focused escape room in a bar transitioned into something considerably more outlandish.”
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Noémie Lafrance Brings The Bentway to Life with ‘Dérives’ (Q&A)An interview about the upcoming participatory movement performancenoproscenium.comStep Into a Dream-Like Tiny Town with ‘Elgin Park’ (Q&A)An interview with Drew Petersen of Trusty Sidekick and Jae Lee/Yvonne Chang of Wildrencenoproscenium.comApple doesn't have an AR headset yet, but its AR toolkit is paving the wayI chased a giant ball that wasn't really there with a friend. I watched someone puppet a hovering sun with their face…www.cnet.comMicrosoft demos Minecraft Earth at Apple's WWDC eventMicrosoft unveiled its new Minecraft Earth game for iOS and Android last month, and now the company is appearing…www.theverge.comWhat Apple's new AR bowling game taught us about the futureI'm scrambling around a wooden floor, trying to fend off a giant virtual ball with my . It's a bowling alley, but it…www.cnet.comThe new Oculus Quest VR headset has already become an Amazon best-seller after just two weeksThere's no question that virtual reality has been changing the gaming world over the last few years, and it's only…ew.comWhy immersive works are immensely popularFair Share Fare's Apitherapy Quarantine as part of Refuge 2018: Pandemic at Arts House. Image: Bryony Jackson. Maybe…www.artshub.com.auStar Wars: Galaxy's Edge's 1,400 cast members each have unique backstories and costumesStar Wars: Galaxy's Edge doesn't just want to look like a movie set. It wants guests to feel like they just stepped off…www.cnbc.comThis is what the future looks like: AWE USA 2019 Event Recap by Emily Friedman"AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry...It's going to be an incredibly important and exciting year for AR/XR, and…www.awexr.comVarjo's XR-1 puts your eyes on the outside of its high-end VR headsetVarjo's VR headset was the best VR headset I had ever demoed; its dual display design with a micro-OLED sweet spot…techcrunch.comStar Wars: Galaxy's Edge visitors need to meet the land's main character, Vi MoradiDisneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is like a real life Star Wars movie, and Vi Moradi, Resistance spy, is the main…www.polygon.comThe politics of play on Disneyland's Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: Galaxy's EdgeThe last thing I expected to find in Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge was a political statement. But it's there…www.mercurynews.comTomorrow's Tech Today: Takeaways From Augmented World Expo 2019The 10th annual Augmented World Expo ( ) wrapped on Friday, May 31st. The conference and expo saw nearly 7,000…www.forbes.comStorytelling Shapes the Future * Journal of Futures StudiesWeb Text version of each JFS paper here is for easy reading purpose only, for the valid and published context of each…jfsdigital.orgOculus Quest First ImpressionsI've been playing with Google Daydream for a while since I started using Pixel devices ... but that seems so passé…maeda.pmGame Of Thrones VR Experience Now Available Exclusively On Viveport Infinity - VRScoutShare TweetIncredible visuals, lukewarm gameplay. Available today exclusively on HTC's Viveport Infinity game…vrscout.comWe Make RealityWe're gathering creators, artists, researchers, and explorers to discover the potential of emerging technologies like…wemakereality.comImmersive Design Residency - FallingwaterThe Fallingwater Institute invites technology professionals who design immersive, virtual environments for a…fallingwater.org
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“Here are some simple, inexpensive ways to make escape rooms more accessible for people with colorblindness:”
From Michael Anderson of ARGN:
“Michael appeared on ‘The Original Podcast’ with Inside A Mind’s Jamie and The Looney Turtle’s Eric to talk about alternate reality games and musical circus-themed escape rooms:”
“Reports of secret black Kyber crystals at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge are popping up here and there. This article walks through some of the findings from those lucky enough to hunt them down.”
From Laura E. Hall of Timberview Productions:
“I love ‘Disneybounding’ — closet cosplay, dressing in stylized clothing that’s just short of a costume. You can see people in the background of photos of Batuu, strolling around in their Star Wars-inspired outfits. Details that make it feel like a real world:”
From Kent Bye of the Voices of VR podcast:
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