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Virtual Reality Innovations at Tribeca Film Festival

In a second edition from the Tribeca Film Festival, Click looks at advances in VR, including reflections on Hiroshima, war in Syria and a white man inhabiting a black man’s body

Click continues its two- the Tribeca Film Festival in New York looking at the advances made in virtual reality in documentary films and immersive experiences. In a special edition co-produced by Lauren Hutchinson, Gareth Mitchell talks to VR film-makers about embodiment where the person undergoing the VR experience is teleported into the body of a VR character and is subject to that foreign character’s experience, such as police brutality and racism. Click also reports on extraordinary VR experiences such as β€˜Hero’ which transports viewers to the Syrian conflict and β€˜The Day the World Changed’ which brings to viewers the harrowing impressions of the victims and survivors of atomic bombings and nuclear arms testing through first-hand testimonies, 3D scanning and photogrammetry.

(Photo: Visitors experiencing social VR at the Tribeca Film Festival 2018. Credit: Lauren Hutchinson)

Producer: Colin Grant

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Sun 6 May 2018 23:32GMT

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