Tribeca Immersive’s Virtual Arcade featuring Storyscapes - explore and celebrate the art found in the virtual world.
Ajax (Henry Winkler) is a foul-mouthed genie addicted to the human souls he collects in exchange for granting wishes. However, something is different about the little girl who found his lamp. She’s hired a straight-laced lawyer (Chris Parnell) to negotiate her wishes, and they may have a trick or two up their sleeves.
1978 New York City. Lupe, a teenage Puerto Rican American, meets Debbie in the cell of a juvenile detention center. Debbie introduces Lupe to the city’s punk rock scene and the secret worlds of Alphabet City. This experience will be presented in collaboration with Phi Centre, Atlas V, and Wallplay.
In 1935, Yonezo Okita left his home in Hiroshima, Japan, and began a new life in Canada. Then war and state-sanctioned racism changed everything—he became the enemy. Three generations later, his grandson, artist Randall Okita, leads us on an interactive virtual pilgrimage through an emotional geography of immigration and family.
The Southern Resident Orcas of the Pacific Northwest face extinction. Meet Kiki: the youngest female in her Pod. Her diet of Chinook Salmon is under threat from destructive noise pollution and human impact. In 10 years she needs to be healthy enough to have children of her own—or a crucial bloodline could end.
Built by an Academy Awards®-winning practical effects team, Fly allows you to become a time-travelling pilot—from the earliest imaginings of Leonardo Da Vinci and his ornithopter, to the Wright Brothers’ success on Kitty Hawk Beach.
Gravity VR takes place in a surreal world where everything that exists is forever falling. Houses, clothes, cars. Everything falls. You meet two old brothers living a surprisingly ordinary life. It seems like nothing in this chaotic world would disturb their lonely and slow routine—until one day everything changes.
The Taiwanese government, internationally isolated and under a great identity crisis, has a solution: They’ll take their people to the moon, create a national hero, and make the country great again. Unfortunately, moon landings are expensive and they don't quite have the budget. So, they do the next best thing—fake it.
Icarus is a mixed reality VR experience with full body tracking in which users immerse themselves in the myth of the young man who burned his wings reaching for the sun. In this dreamlike experience, two users—each with their own avatar—roam the labyrinths for a unique, poetic, and immersive voyage.
A Linha is an interactive narrative experience about love and the fear of change. Set upon a scale-model of 1940s São Paulo, you’ll experience the story of Pedro and Rosa—two miniature dolls perfect for each other—but reluctant to break boundaries and live out their love story.
Mary and the Monster is a holographic augmented reality experience for dozens of people that brings to life Frankenstein through the eyes of a young Mary Shelley. Produced by Parallux and NYU Future Reality Lab, and directed by Kris Layng, this holographic performance transports audiences to the author’s world.
Enter a gritty, surreal, and cinematic story rooted in the emotional world of miscarriage and family. Minimum Mass is a story about love, loss, and black holes. Set in contemporary Rotorua, New Zealand, Minimum Mass takes place in a photorealistic computer generated interactive story world.
Picture: a wild Eden populated by the sounds and images of endlings unfolding before you so that these lost creatures are no longer silenced and forgotten. Procession lets anyone place a Dustin Yellin sculpture in their immediate environment—and reveal hundreds of narratives within by walking around and inside it.
Reading a diary left by the estranged son she lost to AIDS, a mother finds a way to transcend herself and her grief by imagining him alive and in love. Harnessing Intel's 3D volumetric video capture technology and spatial sound, Ark allows you to enter her imagination and co-create the lovers' intimate dance.
With Virtual Reality technology now widely available, it’s more important than ever to understand its effects on people and society. Explore highlights of nearly two decades of VR research from Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. Become immersed, and discover how we can use this powerful medium to enhance our everyday lives.
