From Narrative XR Lab to Venedig Film Festival 2023
The Venice Film Festival is currently underway, which is also celebrating its 80th anniversary. On site are Gothenburg-based Nerve Creations, which together with GötaFilm develops the VR game Reach Out. Co-creator and producer Charlotte Davidson was previously a VR skeptic, but after being part of the Narrative XR Lab, she decided to apply to the film festival's call for VR works, Biennale College Cinema & Virtual Reality.
- I have long been interested in AI. The recent enormous progress both frightens and amazes me, says Daniel Adolfsson, director and co-creator of Reach Out. Therefore, I want to see how technology can be used to challenge understanding of its power.
Charlotte Davidson, co-creator and co-producer, continues - We are looking forward to expanding our network of contacts and getting inspiration, input and generating interest in further funding of Reach Out. I have previously been skeptical about VR and therefore chose to apply to Visual Arena's Narrative XR Lab in the fall of 2022, to try to understand what "all the fuzz is about". It opened up another world and inspired Daniel and I to apply to the Biennale College Cinema & Virtual Reality.
- We have been invited to an environment bursting with creativity. Meetings mixed with lectures, panel discussions and mingling provide the conditions to challenge and develop the techniques needed to be able to do justice to the creators' visions in terms of both storytelling and our sensory experiences. Augmented Reality is in a relatively early stage and it is exciting to be part of a growing and increasingly interesting part of the film industry.
- Jag har länge varit intresserad av AI. Den senaste tidens enorma framsteg både skrämmer och förundrar mig, säger Daniel Adolfsson, regissör för och medskapare av Reach Out. Därför vill jag se hur tekniken kan användas för att utmana till förståelse för dess kraft.
Reach Out is one of twelve selected projects from around the world. In the spring, the team behind Nerve Creations spent a week in Venice developing with some of the world's top talent in XR, storytelling and production. The project wants to explore how humans and bots interact in real time in, for example, VR Chat.
Are you curious about storytelling in VR?
The Narrative XR Lab is currently accepting applications to develop within Extended Reality during the fall semester 2023. Find out more on the project website.
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