All of our diary entries from Tribeca’s Virtual Arcade and Storyscapes

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival AR/VR programming covered a wide range of topics, alongside multiple pieces which leveraged physical installations, free-roam VR, and even live performers and huge sets that mapped to real-life or fantastical worlds inside the headset.

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No Proscenium Managing Editor Kathryn Yu spent several days at the Virtual Arcade experiencing as many pieces as she could and keeping a journal of everything she saw:

Tribeca Immersive 2018 Diary, Part 1: Alice Through A Looking GlassOn ‘Terminal 3': a ground-breaking augmented reality piece tackling Islamophobianoproscenium.comTribeca Immersive 2018 Diary, Part 2: Someone Else’s ShoesTackling racial microaggressions in ‘1000 Cut Journey’ and white supremacy in ‘Meeting a Monster’noproscenium.comTribeca Immersive 2018 Diary, Part 3: The Things He Left BehindHIV/AIDS in the early ’90s, in ‘Queerskins: a love story’noproscenium.comTribeca Immersive 2018 Diary, Part 4: Being a ‘Hero’iNK Stories challenges us with their haunting, multi-sensory vérité VRnoproscenium.comTribeca Immersive 2018 Diary, Part 5: Memories That Hold UsRecalling a lost love in Aaron Bradbury’s lovely non-fiction piece ‘Vestige’noproscenium.comTribeca Immersive 2018 Diary, Part 6: Beautiful, Impossible PlacesFive magical moments from Tribeca’s Film Festival’s fantastic VR Arcadenoproscenium.comTribeca Immersive 2018 Diary, Part 7: ‘Jack: Part One,’ and Some Parting ThoughtsImmersive theatre meets VR in this joyous collaboration between Baobab Studios and Mathias Chelebourgnoproscenium.com

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