Everything Immersive This Week (2/16/2019)
Immersive is out here getting loose
Immersive-land never ever stands still. So what happened this week? A bunch of old emails leaked about Mark Zuckerberg’s intentions to acquire Unity back in 2015 as a way to dominate the AR/VR market; Wired also declared augmented reality the next big thing; Paramount Pictures’ resident futurist Ted Schilowitz also said in Forbes that mixed reality will actually be the main attraction in an XR world; some folks in London announced a huge walkthrough immersive horror attraction in a purpose-built-for-immersive space.
Meanwhile, here in NoPro land, our writers here have been out in the field going from gritty boxing arenas to the depths of Hell to the hills of Fair Verona, taking in a variety of immersive theatre shows this past week as well.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Seasons change, time passes, friends move away… or up the street.
Think Tank Gallery is moving from its home at 939 Maple, the site of many a memory for immersive LA, to a new space at the edge of the Arts District and Little Tokyo. We get together with Jacob Patterson of Think Tank in the podcast studio at the Old Tank one last time to reminisce, talk about ongoing relations with the city of LA, and what’s next for Think Tank.
Content Advisory: we curse. As we often do.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Denver: Love Potion №13: A Puzzle Event
Houston: Uncharted
LA: F(ord Focus); Dream Study #114 (Remount); I Like Scary Movies
Minneapolis: Sing Your Heart Out
NYC: Nocturnes; Block Association Project; Passengers; A Sound of Light, appearing around the bend
Philadelphia: Into the Mural; Kitchen Chronicles
Remote: The Aluminum Cat
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“Split-team and puzzle-focused, PanIQ Room’s Jailbreak was an old-school prison-break game. A few flow jolting moments notwithstanding, it was a clever, traditional, puzzle-focused escape room with plenty to enjoy.”
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“Red herrings are one of the oldest and strangest debates in escape rooms.This is an unusual hot-button issue because there isn’t even consensus as to what constitutes a red herring in an escape room. In this piece, we explore different types of red herrings.”
From Kent Bye of the Voices of VR podcast:
“I had a chance to see the preview of Tenderclaw’s VR piece in Park City during Sundance that features live immersive theater actors from Piehole, and then discuss some of the lessons learned from this very ambitious fusion of immersive theater and virtual reality.”
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