How to Design for Life’s Hardest Moments: An XR Case Study

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How gesture, pacing, worldbuilding and embodied interaction can turn sensitive psychological research into something participants live, not simply watch. How do you design participation around one of the most difficult experiences in human life? Nana Lou is an award-winning interactive VR animation from in which the participant plays a spirit accompanying a grandmother through her […]

Can Immersive Make Money? How to Design for Audiences and Capital

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A practical session exploring the financial, operating and structural choices behind immersive shows – and how producers and operators can build projects that capital can understand and price. Immersive and experiential shows promise outsized engagement – but they carry a financial and operating profile unlike traditional live entertainment, and supply is flooding in faster than […]