Enjoyed doing this podcast with Chris Redmann, Ken Perlin, @krislayng of Parallux, and my heroic co-founder @kjorgie7 . VR is great for storytelling, and I believe it can be even more powerful by adding live performance and giving agency to the audience.
🔹Mary and the Monster, an International Premiere, is an experience that brings to life Frankenstein through the eyes of a young Mary Shelley. This holographic performance transports audiences to the author’s world.
@KrisLayng is a filmmaker and the Artist-in-Residence at the NYU Future Reality Lab. He’s also a VR director (Future Job alert!). Meet him at the festival stage.
Academy Award winner Ken Perlin + his @nyufrl team are bringing you a new story about destiny & family. Join these visionaries at #SIGGRAPH2018 for an unprecedented #VR experience: https://t.co/rqmBAWYuva.
Chris Murphy on the Florida school shooting: "Let me just note once again for my colleagues, that this happens nowhere else other than the U.S.A.... We are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel anywhere else." (via ABC)