2020 Phase 1
Future Rites by Alexander Whitley, Sandra Rodriguez and Normal Studio is an immersive and collaborative performance experience experience based on the seminal ballet The Rite Of Spring. Combining motion capture, real-time animation and AI, it invites interaction between the public and a cast of dancers around themes of ritual, nature and sacrifice.
2020 Phase 1
REBOOT by AΦE is an immersive performance involving dance, architecture, AI and soft wearables based on the true story of Matheryn Naovaratpong, the youngest human to be cryogenized. REBOOT questions users notions of life, death and the space in between.
2020 Phase 1
Dracula Immersed by Davy & Kristin McGuire is the world’s first AR pop-up book reimagining the classic gothic story that will mix the digital sophistication of XR technology with the tangible, imperfect quality of paper-craft and the nostalgic, haptic sensation of reading physical books. Each page turn will reveal a new paper set, a new set of animations and a broody new scene in the story of Dracula.
2020 Phase 1
Austerity On Trial by English Touring Theatre - Combining physical installation, mixed reality re-enactment and a dynamic soundscape of verbatim testimony, this immersive courtroom drama examines the human impact of austerity measures.
2020 Phase 1
Transportalists by FANDCO is a live concert brought into the audience’s home through mixed reality. Part rock concert, part immersive theatre, part musical, all mind-blowing: Transportalists will manifest a thrilling interactive science-fiction space opera in miniature before your very eyes.
2020 Phase 1
New World by Forest Tribe Theatre is an immersive world created using live-streaming, music, theatre and human connection that will immerse users in an enchanting world filled with joy.
2020 Phase 1
(Hi)story of a Painting by Gaëlle Mourre and Quentin Darras is a 6-episode series of 7 to 10-minute 6dof animation educational narratives. Each episode will build a painterly storyworld around a single iconic work of art, offering an entertaining educational experience built for all, with a visual style informed by the work of art in question.
2020 Phase 1
Bodymapping by Hatsumi is a webVR experience enabling people to communicate the experience of pain and emotion through 3D drawing.
2020 Phase 1
A Place to Be by Independent Film Trust is a 360˚ VR experience set in a South London shebeen. This content experience explores the safe space that unlicensed clubs offered to the African-Caribbean community from the systemic racism experienced in society, and the pivotal role they played in maintaining and evolving culture.
2020 Phase 1
Blood Speaks: Maya – The Birth of a Superhero by Just Another Production Company is an immersive story following a girl’s transformation into a uniquely female superhero. Her powers derive directly from the process of menstruation, taking those facets of female experience that have so often been used as a pretext for subjugation, and turning them into a source of power. Her name, Maya, means magic and illusion in Sanskrit.
2020 Phase 1
#CorpTopia by Kimeleon.tv is an AR multiplayer immersive theatre video game set in a parallel world of biologically mixed human-animal species.
2020 Phase 1
IamMUSIC by KRAKED and Associated Industries is an experience-led creative tool which turns the process of making audiovisual art into a physical experience, using the body to generate sound and light. It explores the relationship between movement, sound and vision.
2020 Phase 1
Tales of the Wild by Passion Animation Studios is a VR love letter to the plant life of planet earth. It is a unique encounter with Nature herself; an interactive and embodied experience that shows we have more in common with plants than we think.
2020 Phase 1
Child of Empire by Project Dastaan is an interactive VR docufiction experience based on the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. It navigates identity and sectarianism during times of immense social upheaval.
2020 Phase 1
The Foundling by Raucous is a tabletop theatre show combining fairytale and fact, designed as a prequel to The Undrowned, a large-scale live immersive theatre experience scheduled for 2021.
2020 Phase 1
Song.world by Sammy Lee, M.J. Harding, Cream Projects and Off World Live is a documentary about the global phenomenon of K-pop, experienced as a 360 live stream. This content experience uses multi-platform channels combining historical fantasy and documentary melodrama with Korean cosmologies.
2020 Phase 1
#TrumpsTower by Satore Studio and Borough Productions is a musical drama tracing the intense relationship between one man and his digital surrogate. Playing with avatars, maquettes and virtual environments, virtual production techniques will meld form and content in a compelling prototype.
2020 Phase 1
extraordinary people - extraordinary places by ScanLAB Projects is an immersive narrative experience about the relationship between people and their place of ‘work' and the wonders they perform there.
2020 Phase 1
Munkination - A Second Chance by Visualise & Royal Opera House is an immersive hiphop/opera presenting an Afro- futuristic adventure story about climate change. The tribe, at the heart of the story, is inspired by the heritage of the originating artist, HAM the Illustrator: his ancestors, the Khoisan, are believed to be one of the oldest tribes on the planet, having survived for thousands of years in harmony with the desert in Namibia.
2020 Phase 1
Story Portals by YonderBeyond is a physical pop-up building emerging from inside a book cover which becomes home to multiple stories and characters through the power of AR. As users read and cast their device over this white building, the rooms and characters come to life and progress through the spaces as users do.
2019 Phase 2
DAZZLE by Gibson/Martelli and Peut-Porter reimagines the 1919 Chelsea Arts Club 'Dazzle' Ball as a model for a next-generation mixed reality performance space.
2019 Phase 2
Eulogy by Darkfield is a communal experience that uses binaural sound and speech recognition technology to immerse each audience member into a dreamlike, labyrinthine hotel that is imagined in complete darkness.
2019 Phase 2
Goliath is an animated VR narrative based on the real-life story of Jon, a man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia who, following a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, found a lifeline in online multiplayer gaming.
2019 Phase 2
Madrid Noir by No Ghost is an interactive animated adventure that transports audiences to the bustling streets of 1920’s Madrid.
2019 Phase 1
Invisible Light by 59 Productions is a mixed reality theatrical project combining live performance, set design, projection mapping, 360-degree sound and augmented reality.
2019 Phase 1
Interference by Abandon Normal Devices is a deep-space data hunter on an infinite endeavour of space exploration. Whose journey ends at a dying star’s core, where their existence reveals undreamt datascapes.
2019 Phase 1
Under Attack by Also Known As is a room-scale VR installation that uses spatialised sound, smells and haptic feedback to make you feel what it’s like to be a journalist targeted for doing your job.
2019 Phase 1
Goliath by Anagram is an immersive VR experience exploring what it means to live the experience of a man using gaming to overcome his psychiatric disorders.
2019 Phase 1
What happens when your body is an abstract concept? Basic Tension 3 by Basic Tension and Off World is a collaborative dance installation intended to challenge social, racial and psychological perceptions of the body.
2019 Phase 1
Zia Dance Duet by BespokeVR Ltd is a full-body immersive experience, dancing with an AI dancer named Zia who responds fluidly to your unique dancing style.
2019 Phase 1
Game Over? by Blackwatch Entertainment is a ‘choose your own’ interactive, live action and mixed media theatrical experience.
2019 Phase 1
What is Normal? by Call & Response explores how conventional notions of normality, productivity and difference impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities and autism.
2019 Phase 1
Through the Wardrobe by Colour My Reality invites the user to explore the belongings of others and challenge your own gender expression. Discover a wardrobe where the possibilities of gender are endless.
2019 Phase 1
Experienced in total darkness, Breathe by Darkfield is a communal exploration of conscious dreaming, using speech recognition to deepen the audience’s agency and connection with recorded characters.
2019 Phase 1
Present by Fight in the Dog is an immersive, laugh out loud, interactive comedy guided by stand-up comedian Jordan Brookes.
2019 Phase 1
DAZZLE by Gibson/Martelli and Peut-Porter reimagines the 1919 Chelsea Arts Club 'Dazzle' Ball as a model for a next-generation mixed reality performance space.
2019 Phase 1
Now Was The Time, a detective story told in the ruins of time, is a new immersive production from ground-breaking theatre-makers imitating the dog.
2019 Phase 1
Rory Mullarkey’s Flood by Megaverse is a VR immersive experience that invites the user to enter the flood with a misfit group of young survivors fighting for their lives in a global climate apocalypse.
2019 Phase 1
BEDLAM by Minky Productions is a virtual reconstruction of Bethlehem Hospital, the world’s first "hospital for lunatics" in the early 17th century.
2019 Phase 1
Madrid Noir: The Prologue by No Ghost is an interactive animated adventure that transports audiences to the bustling streets of 1920’s Madrid.
2019 Phase 1
Therese & Peta: A Tale of Two-Spirits by Queer Media UK. Discover the Native American hidden figure in the most famous photo of AIDS, seen by a billion people, a powerful story of love, friendship and the circle of care.
2019 Phase 1
UnDust by Satore Tech. Based on the internationally acclaimed performance Dust by Akrham Khan, transposes the viewer into a world where the physical and the intangible realities collapse.
2019 Phase 1
Basilisk: Enter the Fold by Studio Leg is a semi-fictional interactive VR experience, where a mind-reading super intelligence carries out its own product launch.
2019 Phase 1
The Time Machine by TOMTech and Make Real is a hybrid playable theatre where actions, or inactions, matter the most.
2018/19 Phase 2
Explore the notorious Aylesbury Estate, home to thousands of South Londoners, and the concrete monument to the history of social housing in the UK.
2018/19 Phase 2
Real-time motion capture performance merges with audience participation, live video-projection and virtual reality to create a pioneering theatrical experience exploring disembodiment in the modern world.
2018/19 Phase 2
An immersive location-based virtual reality installation allowing an audience to experience the famous ‘Dambusters’ mission from on board Guy Gibson’s Lancaster.
2018/19 Phase 2
Eight hours ago teenager Emma McCoy vanished. Can you find her before time runs out? Traitor is a two-player interactive high stakes thriller, combining VR with live action.
2018/19 Phase 2
When Something Happens is a short animated VR film about 13.4 billion years of the history of the universe, an inspirational adventure for the next generation of scientists, storytellers and astronauts.
2018/19 Phase 1
The Whitechapel AR by 1888 is an augmented reality experience covering the history and a story of the Whitechapel area in East London.
2018/19 Phase 1
CODA by Aardman Animations Ltd is a story-led VR experience that blends fairy tale, music and gaming.
2018/19 Phase 1
Immersive Histories by All Seeing Eye Ltd is an immersive VR experience allowing an audience to physically step into history and experience the famous 'Dambusters' mission from on board Guy Gibson's Lancaster.
2018/19 Phase 1
Goliath by Anagram is an immersive VR experience exploring what it means to live the experience of a man using gaming to overcome his psychiatric disorders.
2018/19 Phase 1
Beholder by BOM (Birmingham Open Media) is an immersive experience that explores beauty from autistic perspectives.
2018/19 Phase 1
When Something Happens by Boom Clap Play is an epic journey through the history of the cosmos – from the big bang to modern life – written and narrated by poet Boston Williams.
2018/19 Phase 1
London's Got Character by Figment Productions is an augmented reality experience bringing London’s cultural history to life through its vibrant literary, artistic and historical characters.
2018/19 Phase 1
STEIN by Hammerhead is a VR crime thriller solving cold cases throughout British history.
2018/19 Phase 1
Coast AR by Immersive Storylab is a mixed reality experience that will enhance the UK coastline through story, myth, fantasy and heritage.
2018/19 Phase 1
The Conductor by Interplay Theatre An immersive digital exploration of the human senses and nature.
2018/19 Phase 1
Fatherland by Limbik is an interactive theatre experience using real-time motion capture and VR technology that brings to life the journey of a son and father coming to terms with dementia and disembodiment in a modern world.
2018/19 Phase 1
Winter VR by Metro-Boulot-Dodo A poignant story of love, music and loss set against a beautiful arctic landscape.
2018/19 Phase 1
XR Museum by NSC Creative allows the audience to enter the space wing of a virtual museum and go beyond the glass.
2018/19 Phase 1
Theatrical Reality by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is an immersive experience using AR through a magic mirror that will unchain theatrical barriers.
2018/19 Phase 1
Traitor by Pilot Theatre is a two-player interactive high stakes thriller, combining VR with live-action.
2018/19 Phase 1
In Leviathan Legacy by Plymouth Arts Centre sea levels rising allowing audiences to travel across planets and through aquatic worlds.
2018/19 Phase 1
Open Space by Roomsize allows the audience to immerse themselves within an invisible ensemble of musicians, who create an ever-changing musical texture around them.
2018/19 Phase 1
Three Lights by Third Lighter Ltd is an immersive, narrative driven, VR learning experience designed for the museum sector.
2018/19 Phase 1
Symphony of Noise by UP Creatives allow audiences to immerse themselves into sonic-landscapes - ‘Listen differently’ to reveal the music hidden in the world.
2018/19 Phase 1
Common Ground by VR CITY LTD is an immersive journey into the complicated history of the notorious Aylesbury Estate, using stereoscopic 360 video, photogrammetry and 3D modelling.
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