This week we went to the Aesthetica Film Festival in York to help out in the VR Lab.
I didn’t make a lot of progress while I was there but watching all the VR projects nominated for the awards were really inspiring and gave me some great ideas for my story.
One thing that caught my attention was that most VR stories didn’t have interaction at all, and those who did had very little. I decided that i wanted interaction for my project, in order to take advantage of the medium.
The VR projects I liked the most were:
- Midnight Story: Visual style and navigation guided with the eyes
- Child of empire: Visual style and the way it carried you through space
- The choice: Powerful storytelling, not great use of the medium
- The one with the panda: Loved the way they showed flashbacks and moved you in space.