All Exhibits

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice-driven, narrative game that brings you into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life-and-death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970s.

ADR1FT is an immersive First Person Experience (FPX) that tells the story of an astronaut in peril, floating in space.

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Be Boy Be Girl is a multisensory experiment that engages sight, hearing, touch, and smell. In the experience, your body becomes more than just your eyes and ears, it becomes a vehicle to experience and challenge reality.

Birdly is an immersive, full-body installation and research project that explores the experience of being a bird in flight.

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Break a Leg is an interactive experience designed for virtual reality. Inspired by magicians of the 19th century, such as Houdini and Kellar, it immerses you in an offbeat universe as you play the role of an illusionist on stage asked to deliver your best performance in front of a demanding and unpredictable audience.

Budget Cuts is a first-person stealth game in room-scale VR that puts you in the shoes of a spy surrounded by deadly robots.

In advance of the release of her third album, 99¢, Santigold revealed this innovative new interactive video for the song "Can't Get Enough of Myself (feat. B.C.)," which uses the camera of your computer or mobile device to incorporate you into the video in real time.

Add insult to interactivity in this Mad Libs–style animated comedy show. Charlie is a young lad trying to hold on to a job. But he suffers from user-interactivitis, a rare brain disease, which means that you get to choose his words for him. And you know what that means: Charlie gets fired. Have fun ruining his life!

The Choosatron is an interactive fiction story printer, blending digital and analogue storytelling.

Close Your is a tragic first-person game that uses webcam-based face detection to take you through scenes of another person's life every time you blink.

Follow the adventures of Alex in Wonderland, an animated short film by award-winning director Maya Sanbar that is enhanced by a scent track from Vapor's handheld Cyrano "scent speaker."

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Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel lets users 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.

Through scent and sound, Famous Deaths re-creates the final moments of two icons just before they died: Whitney Houston and John F. Kennedy.

With Flippaper, you can draw and actually play your very own pinball machine using only paint markers and a simple sheet of paper.

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Flock is a celebration of nature that begins when you step out of your nest and into the air, joining a flock of fellow birds and following a mother bird. The more aligned you are with the flock, the more joyous and intense your experience will be..

FRU is a puzzle game that features an innovative use of Kinect, in which your silhouette becomes a "portal" between two worlds.

Hard World for Small Things uses VR to explore the circumstances and lives affected by a single tragedy in Los Angeles.

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Throw yourself into the void 250 miles above Earth in this virtual-reality spacewalk inspired by NASA's training program and the astonishing experiences of its astronauts.

This animated video takes you on a journey that you control through a relationship between a man and woman. Set to Jeff Buckley’s stirring rendition of Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman," the video lets you click on a scroll of animated cells to decide the fate of the two—sometimes the woman is alone, sometimes the man is alone, sometimes they are together in love, and sometimes they are together in misery.

In a world in which robots have replaced all human jobs, Job Simulator uses virtual reality to let you experience what it was once like "to job."

Late Shift is the world's first cinematic interactive movie, allowing you to make plot-changing decisions on behalf of the protagonist, in real time, while the film keeps running seamlessly.

Mad God is a stop-motion animation of delightfully grotesque characters, straight from the wonderfully twisted mind of Academy Award–winning director Phil Tippett.

The Magic Dance Mirror creates a graphically stylized mirror image of those using it, featuring dynamic animated visuals based on your movement, audio, and social interactions.

Developed by the USC Shoah Foundation, New Dimensions in Testimony enables people—now and far into the future—to have a “virtual conversation” with Holocaust survivors. The project integrates advanced filming techniques, specialized display technologies, and next-generation natural language processing to provide a truly unique and intimate experience.

Outside Stories combines augmented reality technology with exquisite corpse style storytelling, where participants experience one line of a story, and then record and upload their own.

Pearl follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country in their beloved hatchback, chasing their dreams. It's a story about the gifts we hand down and their power to carry love—and about finding grace in the unlikeliest of places.

Phallaina is the first scrolling graphic novel, telling the story of a personal transformation, combining cognitive sciences and mythology.

Please Stand By is an interactive story told about the recent past, using the body of a vintage 1951 Capehart television and its many controls as an expressive medium. It is fully tactile, inviting exploration and challenging visitors to interpret what they uncover.

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It's a perfect summer day in London; the sun is shining, the birds are singing, there’s a spring in everybody’s step, and Ella is determined to wear her new sunglasses. What could possibly go wrong? Find out in this short VR film.

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Using facial recognition technology as a navigation device, RIOT takes you on a personalized journey through the fringes of a protest turned riot, in which your emotional responses to the situations you encounter and the characters you meet will determine your fate. RIOT is a prototype of a full experience planned for launch in 2017, combining technical and creative innovation by integrating various software platforms into a receptive storytelling experience in which the player's emotional state is the remote-control for the story.

ROOM 2O2 is an interactive game based on head gestures, which places the viewer in the midst of an interrogation.

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Inspired by Marc Antoine Mathieu's book of the same name, S.E.N.S. is the first video game ever to adapt a graphic novel into virtual reality.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew is a virtual-reality game that puts players in the heart of a starship as an officer of the Federation—where every decision determines the fate of their ship and crew.

Temping, the strange and comic tale of an employee's inner life, is performed for an audience of one by a Windows PC, a corporate phone, a laser printer, and the Microsoft Office Suite. Get ready to work.

That Dragon, Cancer is a poetic and playful interactive retelling of little Joel Green’s four-year fight against cancer, made as a love letter by his father.

The Deeper They Bury Me: A Call from Herman Wallace is an interactive encounter with one of America’s most famous political prisoners—and an indictment of a criminal justice system.

The Quinn Experiments is a live experience that combines escape-room inspired gamification with a film-like narrative where participants experience total sensory immersion.

Then/Now is an interactive video in which you are presented with conflicting memories of a relationship and must make choices that influence how the relationship unfolds.

Designed as an interactive webcomic, These Memories Won't Last is a personal story about a grandpa who suffers from dementia.

The Two Bit Circus VR Theater, powered by Samsung, allows audiences to enjoy the same VR experiences simultaneously.

Reggie Watts weaves this unpredictable virtual-reality story that is a dream-within-a-dream meta-ride down a comedic, musical rabbit hole.

We Happy Few is a first person survival video game that takes place in a procedurally generated 1960s England.

word.camera is an image-to-text narrator: a "camera" that automatically generates poetry from photographs using machine intelligence.