12/11/2023 0 Comments Charlie fink 2021People are probably sick of hearing me say that VR is giving new life to live performance, but it is a continuing epiphany of which few are yet aware. The project is inspired by the real stories of people suffering from dissociative identity disorder. We all acted much too human together, suggesting the amazing potential of VR to combine live performance with scripted narrative to create a new form of entertainment. Mar 25, 2021, 09:00am EDT Press play to listen to this article Got it This article is more than 2 years old. Like real-life parents, they showered me with love, played with me, and listened to me, as they subtly tried to justify themselves. Apparently a dozen people were watching this superb production, in which I was an unwitting participant. Finks forty year career at the convergence of popular culture and technology began. Lyons and Stephen Butcko, was extraordinary. Fink teaches XR and Metaverse Studies at Chapman University in Orange, CA. The role playing with my “parents,” played by Deirdre V. I was cast as “Alex,” a child whose parents’ relationship is shaky ground. Wonderful, if not totally awesome, is “The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite” a scripted, live-action experience performed in virtual reality. This is the first in a three part series that will eventually be available in the Oculus store. And that is the most awesome thing I experienced at Tribeca this year. You can cry out at the rude irony, you can laugh at it, you can ridicule it, fight, or not fight. And there’s not a damn thing you can say or do. When you’re black, and a cop decides you have a bad attitude, it is the end of your life or, if you’re lucky, life as you know it. What the hapless Kafka-esque hero is accused of, no one knows, and no one cares. Directors Yasmin Elayat (“Zero Days VR”), Michèle Stephenson, and Joe Brewster, used Depthkit Studio, a portable multi-camera volumetric capture solution, to create a new version of reality: a dreamlike version of the physical world, where time and location melt into an infinite pop culture whirlwind, to tells the terrifying story of how the law is used to convict a man already the victim of racism before he is even accused. Scatter has been in the festival previously with the first most awesome experience “Blackout” (2017). In Tribeca’s Virtual Arcade inside the PC only MOR, we found the first of our most awesome experiences, “The Changing Same,” from Scatter and Rada Studio. We’re glad we don’t have to choose between these excellent pieces, as the jury does, and award a prize to just one. I’m not sure I would have understood what I was looking at had someone not explained it. DHaaS is the first demonstration of the capabilities in Mawari’s. When you talk to Aiko she responds in real time. The experience is an untethered free roam walkthrough rotoscoped environments that show someone dying. Mawari’s platform also allows for interactivity and two way communication. Finally, “We Are at Home,” a Grand Prize winner at the Venice Film Festival, is a beautiful free roam VR installation based on the poem “The Hangman at Home” by Carl Sandburg, that uses the Oculus Quest.
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