The FIVARS 2017 Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Award Winners have been announced!
FIVARS 2017
Harmony
Harmony is a real-time, mobile VR experiment inspired by the “connections” seen and unseen that surround us all, from the…
FIVARS 2017 Spotlight: EXTRAVAGANZA is a Provocative VR Spectacle in 3D!
EXTRAVAGANZA is an audacious 3D animated comedy where you play the role of a figurine in an old fashioned penny arcade designed to titillate and amuse the senses!
FIVARS 2017 Spotlight: “Sanctuary” by Shivani Mulekar focuses on Refugees in Canada
It is often the quieter, more nuanced experiences that truly underscore the power of this medium and it relationship with presence. Shivani Mulekar’s “Sanctuary” is one such piece – exploring the conditions of life for a refugee family in Canada and the simple day to day life living in a Church awaiting their fate.
Manimal Sanctuary
Manimal Sanctuary is a lurking simulator. Set on the Toronto Islands after the rest of the world is devoured by…
City of Ghosts (AR)
City of Ghosts is an interactive, 360-degree mobile augmented reality film experience that allows users ̶equipped with a smart phone,…
Priya’s Shakti & Priya’s Mirror
Priya’s Shakti and Priya’s Mirror are augmented reality comic books and exhibitions featuring India’s first female superhero who is a survivor of sexual violence.
My Brother’s Keeper
In VR experience My Brother’s Keeper, two young brothers fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War unknowingly and tragically reunite one last time on the battlefield at Antietam.
Song of the Sea VR
Song of the Sea VR allows the user to step inside the lush world of mythic Ireland, experienced through the 2d style of the traditional artists of Cartoon Saloon. Continue the adventure in the storyteller’s cavern and unlock the secret world of the Selkies under the sea.
Songs of the Vine
A meditative exploration in virtual reality of the medicine songs, stories, and cosmovision of indigenous Shipibo healers working with ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest.
SANCTUARY
Experience the reality of living in sanctuary in a church for over two years, while facing deportation from Canada.
The FIVARS 2017 Official Selections Have Been Announced
The official selections for the 2017 FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories have been finalized and announced. See the complete list here.
The Cooties
Experience the world’s first VR music video that reacts to you! ‘VR’ is a new song by Los Angeles comedy trio and UCB regulars The Cooties.
The Golden Note
Follow the Quest of Frenchman Jerome as he travels to Toronto in search of his father’s secret…
Asteroids!
From the director of Madagascar comes ASTEROIDS!, the highly-anticipated follow-up to the award-winning VR animation INVASION! Mac and Cheez are back with their robot sidekick Peas, this time on a dangerous, deep space mission.
Hoodoo
With the help of the participant, an adventurous cat goes exploring in a mysterious fragment of a forgotten world, where the promise of good times quickly take a different direction.
Halcyon
Halcyon in an original concept created by Secret Location and designed in a unique hybrid format: 10 short-form episodes, interspliced with 5 interactive VR episodes that take you deeper into the story.
Dreamtime (Now in Stereoscopic 4K)
Dreamtime 4K 3D is a meditation on imagination and the unknown, and is the first cinematic use of Deep Dream to achieve a VR experience, placing you within a dream that is half human and half machine.
Meta-Dimensional
Meta-Dimensional takes the experiencer on a journey from flat two dimensional space to three dimensional space by combining a symphony of video footage (shot live and in the web), and virtual three dimensional assets (built in the web and taken from live sets).
IN HIS PRESENCE
In His Presence is an interactive prayer and meditation experience allowing users to spend time with the message of Jesus Christ.
Miyubi
Experience love, and you inevitable obsolescence, in MIYUBI! A 40 minute VR film from Felix & Paul Studios.
Dolphin Man
DOLPHIN MAN 360 immerses the viewer – literally –, with three 360° videos/VR experiences, into three defining aspects of free diving in the footsteps of Jacques Mayol and what it might have to teach all of us.
Pacha’s Pyjamas
Pacha’s ZBook comes to life and the characters jump off the page in this innovative use of augmented reality for a Young Reader book.
Rose Colored
Victoria’s personal A.I., Klive, is only doing what his programming considers will benefit his user. It’s his job to make sure she’s happy, no matter what.
Alteration
From the studio that brought you “I, Philip,” comes a unique, pseudo-interactive Virtual Reality poetic foray to the future.
Floresta Encantada
Floresta Encantada is an interactive Virtual Reality journey through an enchanted forest filled with magical characters that leads you to a shamanic experience.
The Dream Collector
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.
Manifest 99
Journey into the afterlife aboard a mysterious train inhabited by a murder of crows in this ominous and eerie Virtual Reality experience.
Kiss Me
This “new-style” music video from Japanese rap/pop duo P.O.P. was “created with the latest VR & 3D sound technology.” Captured 3D live-action images combined with 3D animation and ”3D Sound” combining stereophonic and binaural recording comes together for a joyful, catchy music experience guaranteed to make you smile.
Guardian of the Guge Kingdom
Find out what it is like to walk through Guge Kindom Relics in Tibet from the perspective of its current Guardian, Pasang Tsering in beautiful 4K 360 VR video
Submerged
Climate change and defective government policies are precipitating one of the largest exoduses of migrant labor in the world – witness the effects in 360 video.
EXTRAVAGANZA
A clueless executive tests a VR headset that promises to be the future of entertainment…but is actually anything but forward…
UTURN
UTURN is an immersive live-action VR comedy where viewers get to experience both sides of the gender divide in tech. Viewers are placed in the middle of two intertwined stories, one told from a female POV, and the other one from a male POV.
Iorana Rapa Nui
Travel to the mysterious Easter Island, discover its ancestral culture, know its traditions and live the music of the most isolated place in the world with 3D spatial audio as if you were really there.
A Little Love
Exploring the themes of love, family and adventure, award-winning filmmaker Alton Glass takes us inside his first hybrid live-action animated virtual reality film A Little Love.
Ashes to Ashes
Filmed from the perspective of the urn containing the ashes, viewers encounter the colorful family members, who each seem to live in a reality of their own creation.
Rain or Shine
Rain or Shine is a interactive 360° mobile VR short film that follows Ella, a charismatic young girl who loves being in the sunshine.
An Obituary
This horror film from South Korea from director Jean Yoon raises chills and thrills in stereoscopic 360 video.
Under Neon Lights
Led by creators Jono Brandel and Zach Richter, this Within Original is an interactive, colorfully animated VR music experience for The Chemical Brothers’ song “Under Neon Lights,” featuring St. Vincent.
Kinoscope
Kinoscope is a VR experience immersing the spectator into a lively and colorful universe to discover the history of cinema lead by the voice of the Hollywood legend Dean Tavoularis, motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink’s Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.