VR Storytelling
20th Century Fox’s Ted Schilowitz on Bringing VR & Interactive Storytelling to Hollywood
When Ted Schilowitz was looking for what to do after traveling the world as the first RED Camera employee, he happened upon an opportunity to serve as a futurist for 20th Century Fox, looking at how to use emerging...
Embedding a Story Within a Place with Rand Miller, Creator of ‘Myst’, ‘Riven’, and ‘Obduction’
When Rand Miller was a kid, he played Dungeons & Dragons with his brother Robyn where they would go on adventures together exploring and creating imagined worlds. They wanted to embed that same sense of wonder and awe of...
Viacom VR Summer Fellowship Fosters Fresh Talent in NYC
The park is green, the mother behind me. She pushes my stroller perfectly straight; we glide across the pavement, green at either side. I face forward and listen to her voice, the only one audible in the park. On...
Telling Stories in VR with Improv Acting and ‘Mindshow’
At VRLA Summer Expo 2016, Visionary VR premiered Mindshow, an interactive storytelling platform which allows users to animate and voice characters by inhabiting those character's bodies.
I had a chance to catch up with Visionary VR and VRLA co-founder Cosmo Scharf,...
Walt Disney’s Patrick Osborne on ‘Pearl’, a Powerful VR Story about Selfless Service
People were waiting in lines for over an hour to see Pearl both at SIGGRAPH and VRLA, which is one of the best narrative VR experiences that I've seen so far. The central character in the story is a...
Living Stories: What VR Can Learn from Immersive Theater
When the recession hit in 2008, book publisher Charlie Melcher looked to reinvent how Melcher Media told stories using the latest smart phone technologies. They developed an iOS app for Al Gore's Our Choice, and started having a lot...
Cracking the Narrative Code of VR with the Interactive Documentary Genre
Back in 2014, the CLOUDS interactive documentary premiered at Sundance New Frontier where it debuted a VR interface to navigate over 40 oral history interviews with creative coding pioneers. Movies have typically been pretty linear, but how could a...
Visionary VR to Give First Glimpse of Content Creation App at VRLA Next Week
Visionary VR, a stealth virtual reality startup which announced a $6 million fundraise back in March, will give the first glimpse of their VR storytelling application at VRLA.
VRLA Summer Expo 2016 is fast approaching. Among a packed list of...
‘Lawnmower Man’ Director Brett Leonard on Building Storyworlds
Brett Leonard's journey into VR all started when he moved to Santa Cruz and started partying and smoking pot with some of the elite visionaries from the Silicon Valley technology scene. He was an aspiring writer and film director...
‘Sequenced’ & the Challenge of Interactive VR Narratives
The first time that I experienced Sequenced, I had no idea that my gaze directions might have been triggering different branches or small events within the story. Experiencing an interactive drama, but not knowing it was one of the...
