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Everything Immersive This Week (8/29/20)

“What’s that? Is that Spooky Season’s music?”

No Proscenium

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Everything Immersive This Week (8/29/20)
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August was weird. Right?

Like — May, June, July — they all went super slow but August just blasted through.

Time is weird. I’m pretty sure the whole of the Multiverse is going through some kind of meta-restructuring. And I’m not talking about the Burning Man projects, but the one with Monitor, Anti-Monitors and everything Jack Kirby ever imagined. (Happy belated birthday, King.)

Anyway. Everything is strange: have some immersive stuff to reboot your brain for a minute. Sometimes that helps.

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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK

Liz Rosenthal, co-curator of Venice VR at the Venice International Film Festival with Michel Reilhac, joins host Noah Nelson to talk about the 2020 edition. This year’s event is Venice VR Expanded, a hybrid digital/physical exposition of over 40 works in VR — from 360 film to live theatrical performances — across a host of venues virtual and physical.

And the best news: if you own a VR headset of just about any stripe, you can experience some of the programming at home as the festival unfolds.

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On top of all that: this is just a great conversation.

Venice VR Expanded runs Wed, Sep 2, 2020 — Sat, Sep 12, 2020.

FROM EI: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES

Have a show or event you’d like to see here? Submit at EverythingImmersive.com

Theatre

Physical Games & Experiences

Interactive Livestream

  • Tulips“This thing made you have a crisis of confidence over our relationship? I wouldn’t recognize it.”
  • Two Bit Circus REMOTEBe competitive from the comfort of your couch.

Podplay (Location-Based)

The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride invites you to Die-In. Um. Drive-In. (Source: Thirteenth Floor Entertainment)

News From around the Immersiverse

Halloween is looming, and even with the pandemic still bubbling, LA will not be denied its favorite holiday. Luckily, if there’s one thing Angelinos love more than Halloween it is our cars, so you know what’s coming:

Drive-In Haunts.

Netflix tapped Fever to team up with Secret Cinema for a Stranger Things “Drive-Into” experience. Tickets went on sale. It was somewhat confusing, but they look to have sold a lot. Speculation is that it is going to remix the London Secret Cinema event into something suitable for cars. (NoPro)

Meanwhile, while the LA Haunted Hayride won’t be returning to Griffith Park this year, you can head out to San Dimas — whose high school football rules — for the LA Haunted Hayride Drive Up Experience. Brought to us by the new (as of 2019) owners of the Hayride, Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group. These cats run a lot of haunts around the country, and we’re keeping an eye on what kinds of attractions they’re opening around the nation. (We Like LA)

Vader Immortal hit the PlaystationVR platform, and we’re always ecstatic about Vader Immortal. If you have a Playstation VR, you should really get this. Then get Star Wars: Squadrons when it drops in October. Then let us borrow your Playstation VR so we can play that. (NoPro)

This weekend the Burning Man Multiverse is in full effect, and will carry on into next week, with a number of artist collectives putting together “universes” online, creating a digital version of the mega-event’s famous camps. Everything you need to get started is on the Burning Man site. (Via Andrew Lowe in the EI group)

Our friends over at Room Escape Artist released the 6 Year US Escape Room Industry Report as part of RECON: Reality Escape Convention this Monday. For those who want the latest numbers and analysis, you’re in luck. (Room Escape Artist)

A UK immersive music start-up that has been producing headset and phone accessible live music experiences announced this week that they were buying Napster. In other news: Napster apparently was around and available for sale this entire time. For you Gen-Zers out there: Napster was like Spotify, except artists got even more ripped off because they weren’t getting paid, as opposed to now where they get like a dime for ever million people who listen or whatever it is. Anyway, the Internet was a mistake. (TechCrunch)

Finally, this week, Facebook continues to rebrand its AR/VR efforts by changing “Oculus Connect” to “Facebook Connect” and putting all the AR/VR stuff — like Oculus — under a Facebook Reality Labs name. Pray they don’t alter it further. (Facebook)

Discover the latest immersive events, festivals, workshops, and more at our new site EVERYTHING IMMERSIVE, new home of NoPro’s show listings.

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