XR LIVE Performance Exhibition Immersive Event

XR LIVE Performance Exhibition

The XR LIVE Performance Exhibition is a showcase of live XR work from international creators.

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Experience hosted by XR LIVE

Logo of XR LIVE

The XR LIVE Performance Exhibition is a non-traditional online exhibition featuring the works of artists, developers, writers, performers from around the globe, each building and expanding the burgeoning field of live performance XR experiences. But what is a live performance XR experience? And what does XR stand for? XR is a catch-all for a variety of immersive technologies: AR (augmented reality), MR (mixed reality), and VR (virtual reality), technologies which are sometimes referred to collectively as "extended reality." When these technologies are combined with a variety of live performance arts – theatre, dance, music, LARP, puppetry, and more – all sorts of new possibilities are born: video games where the NPCs are played in real-time by live actors; movies in which the audience member gets to be the main character; plays which extend beyond the stage and scope of reality itself; music and dance which flow together into digital synesthesia; performance art when the separation between artist and audience can be thousands of miles apart and yet staged within the intimacy and comfort of your own home. And that's only just the beginning. There are no passes, no applications, no jury, and no fees like what you might find at a more traditional festival (which we also love!), increasing accessibility for creators and guests alike. Instead, all experiences are welcome and open to the public, with each experience run and controlled by the individual creators. And finally, the focus is solely on XR experiences with both guests and performers participating together in real-time. XR LIVE takes no payment from any of the creators or guests of their respective experiences, instead simply serving as a facilitator and hub for both the exhibition and community itself. It's very much an experiment, one we're as curious to learn the results from as I'm sure many of you are.... Show More

Audience Role

This varies with each experience: some having a high degree of interactivity with the audience member(s) at the heart of the experience, while others offer more passive, spectator roles with varying degrees of optional interaction.... Show More

Content Advisories

  • Varies between the individual experiences featured

  • 16 +

Interaction Advisories

  • Moderate (familial) contact

Mobility Advisories

  • No mobility advisories

  • Event is wheelchair accessible.

PWYC - $55.00

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What you will need

AltSpace

Social VR app with alternative 2D web browser mode. Full experience requires VR headset: PC or Quest.

Browser

LBE AR

Neos

VR Chat (PC Only)

Social VR app primarily consisting of user generated worlds. Requires PC tethered VR headset. Performance may vary. (Not Quest compatible.)

VR Chat (PC & Quest)

Social VR app primarily consisting of user generated worlds. Requires virtual reality headset: PC & Quest compatible. (World compatibility may vary.)

WebXR

Additional Instructions

The vast majority of the experiences – both those announced today as well as those which will be in the near future – are staged in webXR or one of several social VR platforms, including VRChat, Neos, and AltspaceVR. There are a few exceptions which may offer location-based experiences in addition to remote online attendance such as OnBoardXR's Non-Player Character and Unwired Dance Theatre's Discordance, as well as one currently announced experience which is exclusively location-based: Nanotopia's Symbiont::MyceliOhms is exclusively performed on-site in The Lab at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in British Columbia.

XR LIVE

Hosting immersive events on EI since August, 2022

XR LIVE is an online community founded in 2020 by two of the co-founders of Ferryman Collective –Braden Roy and Brian Tull – consisting of artists, developers, writers, performers and fans dedicated to the burgeoning field of live performance XR experiences. With so many talented creators building experiences on the bleeding edge, we've recently decided to take the next step and organize a non-traditional exhibition. XR LIVE takes no payment from any of the creators or guests of their respective experiences, instead simply serving as a facilitator and hub for both the exhibition and community itself. XR LIVE is an online community founded in 2020 by two of the co-founders of Ferryman Collective –Braden Roy and Brian Tull – consisting of artists, developers, writers, performers and fans dedicated to the burgeoning field of live performance XR experiences. With so many talented creators building experiences on the bleeding edge, we've recently decided to take the next step and organize a non-traditional exhibition. XR LIVE takes no payment from any of the creators or guests of their respective experiences, instead simply serving as a facilitator and hub for both the exhibition and community itself.