Dive into the future of entertainment where stories seamlessly blend with live events, virtual worlds, and interactive experiences!

Today's audiences, raised on immersive gaming and dynamic experiences, crave more than just a passive show. This session brings together experts to explore how captivating narratives, cutting-edge tech, audience engagement, and awe-inspiring live moments are shaping the entertainment landscape.

Whether you're a creative mind with a franchise or new show idea, or simply curious about what audiences of tomorrow expect, this discussion will equip you to create the next generation of unforgettable experiences.

Single Thread Theatre, in partnership with Debbie Deer Productions, grants a three-month paid training incubator for eight IBPOC fellows.

The main goal of the fellowship program is to offer an opportunity for IBPOC artists to expand their knowledge of the extended reality (XR) industry under the guidance of established mentors, in order to increase their employability and collaborative potential in the emerging XR and live performance medium.

The power of future experiences lies in bringing audiences together in a collective real-time synchronous immersive environment. Covering a variety of platforms and technology available to creators and designers, this session will share insights on how to ignite your audience. New formats of storytelling in conjunction with new technologies are providing deeper and unexpected experiences for audiences. From Social VR to LBEs, by integrating social connection, our audiences can truly become global.

This panel discusses the emergence of XR theatre production, including VR and AR integration with narrative original and adaptive works, as well as how to blend XR technologies with live and virtual audiences. The theatre world has developed communities for live, virtual productions that will continue to evolve as we emerge from COVID-19 pandemic. In this session, some of the leading producers of virtual theatre and dance demonstrate recent and new works, including DUET, 'Finding Pandora X,' and the Liam Payne EE BAFTA Live AR performance.

Bringing audiences together in social VR for an interactive, collective experience is an intricate puzzle that combines story, worldbuiding and interaction strategy. During this hour-long workshop, participants will meet in AltSpace VR to engage in activities related to interactive narratives, improvisation, and immersive spaces. Exploring Double Eye Studios’ virtual theatre space, the group will work as a collective whole, as well as be divided into mini groups for intimate collaboration. Online attendees will be able to watch, and will be given their own interactive assignment.

Finding Pandora X by Double Eye Studios’ Kiira Benzing (Founder and VR director) and Alyssa Landry (Narrative Director) illustrates how socially connected virtual worlds can be ideal venues for immersive theater in the Metaverse.

Pulling back the virtual curtains, we will take you behind the scenes of our production and share insights into our storyworld, Mt. Olympus, to consider the opportunities that virtual worlds offer for events and Live Entertainment.

This three-hour master class dives into the narrative development process for XR experiences. Theme parks have been creating immersive, interactive entertainment for over half a century and their well-established production pipelines provide a blueprint with direct parallels to the XR process. Alyssa will be discussing tips and techniques from theme park best practices, using them as a jumping off point to explore how they can be applied to the narrative development of XR projects.

This is an interactive workshop, answering your questions or topics throughout the class. 

Theme parks have been creating immersive, interactive entertainment for over half a century. World building, non-verbal storytelling, and well-established production pipelines all provide a blueprint with direct parallels to the XR narrative development process. In this talk, Alyssa Landry will be discussing tips and techniques from theme park best practices and how they can be applied to the creative development of XR projects.

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