Leading the way when it comes to using VR for non-fiction storytelling.
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With direction from Oscar Raby, founder of award-winning reality studio VRTOV, and illustrated by acclaimed Aboriginal artist Vernon Ah Kee, this 360 degree evolving story paints a picture of Patima's family life and experiences during Australia's worst air attack of World War II
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National Theatre uses Virtual Reality to get actors into character.
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A strange, solitary and totally riveting experience.
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VRTOV’s work is all about what you do inside the story, and how your connection to the story comes out of your actions.
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Leaves an impact that’s not soon forgotten; even a few weeks on from trying it for myself I can still remember vivid images and dramatic moments.
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Raby’s developing style – the piece is part-animation, part-sketchbook, part-gamer narrative – calls into question the very essence of memory and testimony.
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Oscar Raby, a Chilean visual artist based in Australia, has been invited for a two-week residency to the National Theatre to experiment with VR and theatre.
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A ground-breaking new form of history documentary.
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If you’re a fan of Falkor from The Neverending Story, let’s just say you’re in for a wild ride.
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These projects point to a new area of interactive storytelling that VR could revolutionize in the future.
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Among the pieces I experienced, Oscar Raby’s The Turning Forest was perhaps the one that convinced me VR will radically transform entertainment-based animation … the experience is absolutely exhilarating.
Read MoreA new VR program from the BBC, tentatively titled "Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel" will put viewers in the shoes of a 19 year old.
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BBC iWonder, the factual educational brand of the UK pubcaster, has commissioned a virtual reality (VR) documentary on the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection of Ireland in 1916.
Read MoreSCREEN AFRICA EXCLUSIVE: Producer Katy Morrison and
director Oscar Raby are the co-founders of an Australian virtual reality (VR) focussed digital production company called VRTOV. In recent years VR has extended its reach
beyond the gaming world as a platform for storytelling and entertainment content.
As a designer in this genre, Morrison shares with Screen Africa how the medium
has the potential to offer audiences a unique immersive experience.
South Australians will have the chance to immerse themselves in five different virtual reality worlds during next year’s Adelaide Fringe – including one that has its origins in Chile’s brutal Caravan of Death
Read MoreIngrid Kopp, Senior Consultant at the Tribeca Film Institute describes herself on Twitter as “Endlessly thinking about documentaries, storytelling, audiences, technology, mobile, impact & engagement.” Recently, she’s been guest-curator of Virtual Reality work for the New Dimensions exhibition. i-Docs asked her to describe her involvement in the project.
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As you make your ascent up the hill to the firing squad, you effectively give your assent to what you are witnessing. You know it's coming – Raby's narration has nudged you unmistakably in that direction – and still you go.
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Beautifully composed and personal VR.
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If there’s a hell, it probably feels a lot like Assent.
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