Shining the starlight on industry trailblazers shooting for the stars
Exclusive TrailblaXR interview: Where the Moon Meets the Game
Eight360 is bridging worlds: training astronauts on lunar rovers at Texas A&M and now pushing VR gaming and immersive entertainment to levels of realism never seen before. The NOVA sphere makes every movement matter.
Exclusive TrailblaXR interview: REPLIKANT on the future of interactive digital experiences
Past, present, and future – REPLIKANT’s CTO Luc Schurgers shares how he is redefining animation and digital content with the companies AI-powered 3D virtual production platform that brings high-quality character creation, digital humans, and immersive environments within reach of every creator.
Raindance Immersive 2025 awards ceremony: Agile Lens’ ‘A Christmas Carol VR’ impresses
As the XR spotlight beamed across Raindance Immersive 2025 this June, audiences and innovators converged around the year’s most boundary-pushing virtual storytelling experiences
Bringing Dickens to VR: Instinctively Real Media Sponsors Agile Lens’ ‘A Christmas Carol VR’ at Raindance Immersive 2025
A cutting-edge 3D virtual world adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, crafted by mixed reality pioneers Agile Lens, comes vividly to life in VR. Nominated for Best in Immersive Theatre at the 2025 Raindance Immersive Festival, the experience is proudly supported by official media sponsor Instinctively Real Media
PikPok – Why compelling stories position the player at the heart of the company’s video games
PikPok’s Design Manager and Narrative Director, Rick Stemm explains why great story is the Holy Grail to gamer experience. Shhh… there’s an innovative XR game in development, more to come
Live virtual event: A Christmas Carol VR
This holiday season, step beyond the page and immerse yourself in the heart of Charles Dickens’ beloved tale like never before. Free tickets available now for Meta Quest 3 or livestream on YouTube, brought to you by Agile Lens
Instinctively Real Media sponsors A Christmas Carol VR 2024, an Agile Lens live immersive theatre show
Returning for its fourth year, this virtual reality adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale has become a flagship project for Agile Lens, optimized for Meta Quest 3 and introduces Sony mocopi body motion tracking system
VIA University: Søren Klit Lambæk: When Software Developer turns Adjunct
The VIA University in Denmark takes a focused approach to XR; students are future-proofed with their latest software engineering education for real-time applications the likes of VR training simulations and game development with powerful games engines Unity and Unreal Engine, real-time software and 3D animation… and more on his side projects
Virbela: Interactive avatars and virtual worlds – who are the companies building virtual communities for business
We sit down with Alyssa Keast to talk about the future of Virbela’s next-gen metaverse platforms and 3D tools designed to enable live virtual and real world collaboration for everyone, everywhere
Infinity Festival Hollywood, 2023
With cutting-edge content, panels and exhibitions dedicated to XR, VR, AR, AI, Metaverse, Web3 and Virtual Production – this years’ festival is frequented and participated by tech leaders from major studios and media companies, with screenings from Academy Award contenders and winners, and a line up of celebrities.
Get ready for Infinity Festival Hollywood 2022
The festival showcases the results of cutting-edge technologies in the hands of artistic talent and creators of innovative storytelling and expression. With IF now in it’s 5th year, this is the place where Hollywood meets Silicon Valley hosted at the Goya Studios in the heart of Hollywood this November.
LiViCi Concert Series: Carry Me Home, A Live and Virtual Journey into the Creative Mind of Singer-Songwriter, Didier Stowe
Through an exceptional combination of music, circus, dance, and theatrical performances, together with real-time motion capture, virtual reality and gaming technology, Carry Me Home, invites audiences around the world to an inspiring, meaningful, and uplifting event.
CONICAL achieves VR magic with Epic Games
Awarded the Epic MegaGrant, CONICAL launches ‘The Green Fairy’ to the world – New Zealand’s first ever CG animated VR movie and Vlog series, featuring voiceover actors from Disney and Netflix
Mojo Vision Unlocks Your Bionic AR Eyes
Wearing augmented reality enabled contact lenses means our future in AR is eyes-up, instead of heads down.
Berlin to the world: Onpoint Studios, a trio of motion capture and virtual production ninjas
A portfolio that gleams with notable clients and productions the likes of creative music videos In Your Eyes ft. Alida by acclaimed Musician, DJ and Producer Robin Schulz showcased by Epic Games, and another soon to be released. The popular Diamonds music video by Swiss rapper, Monet192. Multiple in-house projects for partner NEXR and Staramba including the highly successful FC Bayern Munich Virtual Reality experience. Immersive VR security training for Pixaera, and début of their innovative Remote Motion Capture streaming pipeline in collaboration with computer games studio Another Coffee promoting their multi-player online game UMI, plus many more.
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