US PREMIER Alice, The Virtual Reality Play is a complete VR experience that immerses viewers into a virtual scene and allows them to interact physically in real time with characters and objects.
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Behind the razor-wire of the Manus Island immigration detention center, experience the heartbreaking stories of three refugees who came to Australia seeking asylum.
Munduruku: The Fight to Defend the Heart of the Amazon
US PREMIER Munduruku: The Fight to Defend the Heart of the Amazon is a multisensory VR experience inviting viewers to visit the Munduruku indigenous people and join their struggle.
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Set in the middle of the iconic Utah desert, this mesmerizing 4D live music performance takes you on an incredible journey, unleashing both natural and supernatural elements.
WORLD PREMIER Sonaria is a VR film that follows two ever-changing creatures as they flow from one life-form to another in a vivid journey of sound and light.
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UK electronic music pioneer Darin McFadyen plays the first-ever DJ set made for the deaf community and people who hear—made possible by the inclusive SUBPAC Physical Audio technology.
US PREMIER The Cloud Machine is a large-scale installation containing an audience-generated cloud that speaks and behaves in particular ways, depending on the spectators’ mental state.
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This short VR film tells the story of Vaysha, a young girl born with a left eye that sees only the past and a right eye that sees only the future—a curse that prevents her from inhabiting the present.
WORLD PREMIER Forest is an experiment in mixed reality where you design a forest-like landscape from above and scan it to allow people to experience it as a shared 3D virtual world.
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This awe-inspiring VR experience reveals the unobstructed night sky that sadly has been erased in many places unchecked commercial growth.
US PREMIER Harold Halibut is a modern adventure game using stop-motion, exploration, story, and humor to tell the story of life on a spaceship stuck undersea.
WORLD PREMIER Narrated by Peter Coyote, Ko’Ko's Curse is an augmented reality tale in which the user must find and replace Ko'Ko the owl's stolen feather, thereby saving world's seeds and plants.
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The Magic Paint Mirror is a device-free augmented reality experience that tracks a user’s body and, in a reflective projection, allows them to draw and paint with their hands.
WORLD PREMIER Monster's Bounty is an asymmetrical VR multiplayer game that pits players against a gigantic clawed sea monster in an attempt to steal the world's finest treasure.
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The Daily Five/Nine Alexa Skill is an interactive game that was inspired by the appearance of the Amazon Alexa on USA Network’s Golden Globe– and Emmy-winning series Mr. Robot.
WORLD PREMIER New Dimensions in Testimony is an interactive platform that allows future generations the opportunity to interact with Holocaust survivors through a virtual conversation.
WORLD PREMIER RIOT 2.0 is a live-action film with 3D sound that uses facial recognition and AI technology to change the film’s narrative based on participant’s emotional responses.
WORLD PREMIER Starship Commander is a virtual reality game driven by human speech that puts you in command of a secretive mission in which your decisions have deadly consequences.
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UK electronic music pioneer DJ FreQ Nasty leads an immersive musical journey using SUBPAC physical audio units to create a sense of tranquility, connectedness, and well-being.
If I Ride combines the joy and tactility of hands-on creation with the digital wonder of virtual reality by letting you ride a bike through a VR environment you make yourself.
Neon Knights is a two-player cooperative augmented reality music game that uses two Microsoft Hololens headsets to detect and track the players’ location in the room.
This performance-capture demo showcases some of the technology from the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2016 production of The Tempest, made in collaboration with Intel and in association with The Imaginarium Studios.
Transport yourself into the headspace of Legion’s David Haller and interact with his world in this immersive mixed reality experience powered by Microsoft HoloLens.
Suite 1742 is a virtual experience in which the audience relives John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 bed-in for peace at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal.
Treehugger reveals the secret life of the giant sequoia and never seen inner workings of the world’s largest tree, uniquely illustrating the sequoia’s immense scale.
US PREMIER AR Travelers is a networked multiplayer AR game in which players must communicate and synchronize to prevent an invading alien force from entering our world.
US PREMIER Manifest 99 is an ominous and eerie story about finding redemption in the afterlife, exploring scale, perspective, and personal connection unlike any other VR experience.
WORLD PREMIER Office Hours enables you to play a story with your voice using interactive audio technology to simulate a phone call that quickly goes awry. You must navigate the story by speaking aloud.
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Acclaimed author Khaled Hosseini wrote Sea Prayer to commemorate the second anniversary of the tragic death of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned while attempting to reach Greece in 2015.
US PREMIER The Boy and the Lemon is a delightful augmented and virtual reality adaptation of a children's story about luck and teaching life’s most magical lesson: how to be lucky.
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Discover what happens to our abandoned dreams in The Dream Collector, a VR film that follows the story of an old man and his dog, who collect broken dreams and try to fix them.
US PREMIER Trafficked is an animated VR experience based on interviews conducted with “Maria,” a woman who spent eight years in captivity after being taken from her home in Nicaragua to work as a prostitute in Mexico.
US PREMIER Transmission is an immersive, mixed reality theater production that tells the story of two brilliant sisters selected to join a mission to meet our celestial neighbors.
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This WebAR experiment uses the very latest markerless tracking technology and was designed exclusively for FoST 2017 to show the creative potential of this new technology.
Cosmic Top Secret is an award-winning documentary game and adventure that follows T, a girl who wants to find out what her dad did for Danish Intelligence during the Cold War.
Breathe fire, swim underwater, survive the Ice Age, and soar over volcanos as you evolve through different creatures and a billion years of evolution in this action packed, multiperson VR adventure.
The Story of Lightning & Thunder is an adaptation of a Nigerian children’s story explored through two different types of immersive experiences rooted in time.
Tree, a haptically-enhanced virtual reality experience, transforms participants into a tree in the rain forest, allowing them to experience the tree's life from a seedling to its fullest form and witness its fate firsthand.
After Solitary is a groundbreaking virtual reality experience that places the viewer physically and emotionally inside an otherwise inaccessible world: solitary confinement.
Disgraced Enforcer Jon and his crew are marooned on Anomaly, where technology doesn’t work and the landscape and creatures are as lethal as they look. Join the adventure to reclaim our humanity and save a world!
Behind the Fence provides a look inside Myanmar's modern-day concentration camp created to contain the minority Rohingya Muslims, who are arguably the most persecuted people on Earth.
In this augmented reality tale, Mayberry and Marshall find the impossible Wishing Tree and awaken in the fantastic world of Nith, where the magic and danger is very, very real.
Blindfold is an impactful interactive VR experience that uses innovative game design to draw attention to the human rights violations against journalists.
Broken Night is a VR film that explores a woman's unreliable memories of an intense trauma; viewers must search for the truth as her narrative shifts with their gaze.
Datavized is building a smart way to experience smart cities that works everywhere, for everyone. It combines the immersive power of virtual reality with the seamless delivery of the mobile web.
Painted entirely by hand, Dear Angelica is a VR film, starring Geena Davis and Mae Whitman, that plays out as a series of memories unfolding around the viewer.
Delila's Gift, created with Tilt Brush, tells the story of a sea creature named Delila and her struggle to understand belonging, ownership, fear, othering, and the darkness surrounding her.
DreamDate VR is a speculative tutorial that combines virtual and physical interaction to explore how intimacy and desire can occur in an isolated environment.
With Earplay, you can play stories with your voice. The Demo of this new interactive audio platform enables you to make choices that affect how the story unfolds.
Fall in Love is a groundbreaking combination of VR, NLP, and facial recognition AI that results in an authentic emotional connection meant to simulate the experience of falling in love.
With all the idealism of the original Star Trek and the grit and immediacy of Gravity and The Martian, the story of humanity's first thrilling and terrifying adventures to the stars takes flight in the augmented reality adventure.
Apple has created the foundations for Inside Out Tracking VR experiences using just a phone, which makes it significantly more affordable than the not-yet-released Inside Out HMD's.
WORLD PREMIER Lala is a VR experience featuring Holocaust survivor Roman Kent's story about his beloved childhood dog Lala, who was with him in the Lodz Ghetto.
Using revolutionary augmented reality technology and depth cameras, the Laser Hands Augmented Reality Wall allows users to take on one of the ultimate superpowers: laser hands!
Look But With Love: A Story of Women (Episode One)
Look But With Love is a VR documentary series about the extraordinary people of Pakistan who are changing the socio-political landscape of their communities through causes they are deeply passionate about.
See how Power BI can be used to create interactive data stories, like the evolution of Artificial Intelligence, using the new Timeline Storyteller custom visual.
Watch two examples of Netflix’s new branching narrative format that allows kids to "choose their own adventure": Puss in Book and Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile.
Notes to My Father is a VR experience that uses a mix of verbatim theater and documentary storytelling techniques to tell a story of love, grief, and reconciliation between a survivor of trafficking and her father.
One Small Act takes you along on the journey of a child whose world has been torn apart by conflict. See the powerful impact small acts of kindness have on the life of one girl.
Paper Doll Origami is a two-user, two-room interactive, mixed-media VR experience exploring the relationship dynamic of “superior,” “inferior,” and “equal.”
Priya's Mirror uses augmented reality to tell the story of Priya, a rape survivor and modern-day superhero, as she joins forces with acid attack survivors to take on the demon king Ahankar.
Scary Cabin by MashUp Machine introduces a new entertainment experience, where budding creators collaborate with a learning AI to make quirky animated horror movies.
Solace is an interactive animated film based on science fiction writer Jeff Noon's story about a future in which marketing and addiction are disturbingly intertwined.
The Compound Camera is an inflatable installation that stitches together hundreds of perspectives onto a single panoramic view, allowing visitors to view the world as a fly would.
Quantum Interface has invented the next generation of how we will interact with real and virtual objects, and their attributes, based on changes of motion and the physics of how interactions happen in the natural world.
The Invisible Walls of the Occupation takes viewers on a virtual tour of the village of Burqah, illustrating various aspects of Palestinians’ daily life under occupation.
The Space We Hold is a direct provocation to bear witness to the testimonies of three of the oldest living survivors of militarized sexual violence in the world today.
Step into an immersive virtual reality art experience as you journey through gallery spaces and engage with poetic sculptures that communicate information about overfishing.
Ultrahaptics provides the feeling of touch using ultrasound waves sent to bare skin, enabling users to feel shapes, textures, and other sensations without needing to wear gloves or hold controllers.
Winner of Google Play Awards Best VR Experience, Virtual Virtual Reality is a three-hour narrative game about VR, AI, and our sci-fi fever dreams: both a love letter to and satire about the VR industry.
Zero Days VR tells the true story of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus hatched during a clandestine mission by the United States and Israel to sabotage an Iranian nuclear facility.
FoST CLASSIC Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel lets you step into the memories of Willie McNeive and go back in time to a moment that changed Irish history forever: the Easter Rising of 1916.
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Throw yourself into the void 250 miles above Earth in this award-winning VR spacewalk inspired by NASA’s training program and the astonishing experiences of its astronauts.
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Step inside the world of USA Network’s award-winning series Mr. Robot like never before and experience a pivotal moment from Elliot’s past.
FoST CLASSICNotes on Blindness is a six-part interactive documentary using new forms of storytelling, gameplay mechanics, and virtual reality to explore the cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.
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Emmy award winning and Oscar-nominated, Pearl, is a 360 VR story that follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country in their beloved hatchback, chasing their dreams.
FoST CLASSIC Phallaina is the first scrolling graphic novel, telling a story of personal transformation while combining cognitive science and mythology.
FoST CLASSIC Possibilia is an interactive love story film starring Alex Karpovsky and Zoe Jarman as a young couple contemplating breaking up—a decision that could yield an infinite number of possible outcomes.
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Tilt Brush is a virtual reality tool that allows artists, dreamers, and doodlers to create artworks in room-scale three-dimensional space.
HoloKit is an open source cardboard version of the HoloLens, making the high-tech contemporary creative medium of mixed reality exceedingly more accessible.
