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In Alien Rescue you play a character hired by a team of alien-rights activists to help them rescue a rare and dangerous creature from captivity. You must break into the Kelosite Research Facility, avoid being caught, killed or eaten, and try to accomplish the mission. Along the way you’ll explore the massive lab, you’ll use your wits to outsmart the Artificial Intelligence security system, and you’ll have the chance to determine where the story goes and how it ends. However, Alien Rescue is not simply a thrilling adventure: you will also have to confront the challenging ideological debate around vivisection and animal rights, and ultimately you will have to choose sides and determine where your loyalties lie.

CAST
Alien Rescue features five live actors, all professionals with years of VR acting experience. They are located across the globe, from New York to South Africa, Kansas to Connecticut. This troupe has been working closely together for nearly three years. See the Credits page for more information.
We join Tommy Taylor as he recounts his journey attending his first ever protest in the “Free Speech Zone” at Queen’s Park before being swept up in a mass arrest and detained at the Eastern Avenue Detention Centre.

Originally a stage play that toured Canada in 2012, You Should Have Stayed Home was presented in virtual reality as part of FOLDA 2022.

Directed by Michael Wheeler and performed by actor and playwright Tommy Taylor, the play presents a virtual adaptation of Tommy’s original Facebook note, How I Got Arrested and Abused at the G20 in Toronto, which has been translated into seven languages and appeared in twenty-one countries. Today, Tommy’s story takes on urgent new meaning in the context of the ever-rising tensions and public dialogue on police violence, protest, and institutional reform.
With the ruthless intentions of the Kelosite’s shadowy faction - and a massive facility full of harrowing encounters - between you and the liberation of the Zibanejor, this mission will be the ultimate test of your wits, battle readiness, and where your loyalties truly lie.

Dance meets cutting edge technology in this performance that combines live dancers, motion capture, VR technology, telematics and immersive theatre. DISCORDANCE features dancers in London and New York connected in real-time in the virtual space, co-present with participants in VR headsets and spectators in a proscenium theatre.

DISCORDANCE explores themes of multi-identities and the search for human connection. Follow the journey of a character through self-discovery, trying to fit in but realising that their otherness is what will help them connect with others.

It expands on the experience of a traditional dance performance by combining it with the interactive potential of immersive technologies. In this one-of-a-kind performance, audiences can choose their level of immersion and participation. In-person and remote audiences can coexist in the virtual environment and interact with the live dancers. Spectators can also join in the proscenium theatre and, remotely, on the livestream. Each format interweaves visuals from each virtual and physical location, making DISCORDANCE a truly unique hybrid experience.

You have been called by an alien creature named Onyx to a mythical planet on which they are living out their final days. You, and two others, are asked to help them transition from this reality to the next.
But before Onyx can lay infinite wisdom at your feet, the weight of your spirit must be assessed. If found ready, you shall embark upon the journey of a lifetime, skipping among the stars, floating above the spheres, and remembering who you really are.
Gumball Dreams is performed live with one actor playing multiple roles. Audiences can attend from anywhere in the world, as long as they have access to a VR headset.

Murder Ballads: The Calamity at Widows Rock is a live immersive VR dark ride set in a cursed mining town. Combining elements of supernatural folk curses and Grand Guignol-style naturalistic depictions of human depravity, Murder Ballads is set in the Wild West mining town of Widow’s Rock which has been which has been beset by a dark miasma unleashed by the miners. This curse has caused an extreme loss of inhibition among the town’s inhabitants, turning minor tensions into scenes of violence and murder.

Prior to the calamity, Widow’s Rock was a quiet town with a local economy based around its gold mine. All was calm until the miners uncovered something better left buried, resulting in a massacre. Initially seen as an isolated incident of greed turned violent, incidents of vengeance of retribution quickly began to spring up throughout the town, turning the land into a warzone.

Imagine if a Disney musical came to life and interacted with the multiple tiers of audiences both in-person and virtually in what Fame Magazine calls “a dream-pop immersive experience between VR and live theater… a flawless blend of Broadway, games, pop, and comedy bliss.” Live musical theater meets video games as Creator and Performer, Brendan Andolsek Bradley, invites four-tiers of audience to enter and impact the story arc and help a character without agency navigate their grief through interactivity, immersion and song.

Musical theater and video game fans around the world have attended the show on-site and remotely
throughout the year offering a case study for bringing live interactive experiences to any device or screen.
Using interoperable, web-based technology, the show scales from one-on-one virtual performances...
to expo floors...all the way to IMAX screens.

Four audience members join the Actor and Musician on-stage, wearing virtual reality headsets while the
virtual world and characters are projected on the big screen for the seated spectators to watch, like an
animated film come to life. Remote participants can join in virtual reality or watch a livestream of the entire experience on a traditional streaming service or VOD.

Off-Rail is a parody of a western-themed VR/AI theme park of the future where "nothing can go wrong". It is a collaboration by RaptorXR, an independent studio featuring the most experienced VR comedy improvisers in the world. This show offers the most audience agency of any VR performance ever made and dares you to take risks as our expert cast follows you..."Off Rail"!

Upon visiting your family's home after your mom's passing, you are whisked into a forgotten memory from childhood. Each interaction is as meaningful as it is fascinating when you rediscover your past and delight in the simplicities of being a kid once again.

However, something is not quite right. Perhaps it's the masked tension between your parents. Maybe you are hearing voices that seem to be only in your mind. It could even be that there is a monster hiding in your closet. After all, respite is only temporary when you are at the whim of your own mind.

Welcome to Respite, the first chapter of The Severance Theory, has been critically acclaimed and featured as an Official Selection at prestigious festivals, with its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, its International Premiere at Venice Film Festival, its Asian Premiere at Kaohsiung Film Festival and featured in Raindance Immersive. where it won Best Narrative Experience.

This tour series is a chance for a final look at innovative and artistic Sci-Fi and Adventure-themed worlds on the Altspace platform before its sunset on March 10th. These worlds immediately inspire interactivity, and the sandbox of social VR contributes to the value of group playfulness. Research into the wonderful community of Altspace inspired the LARP-O-MAT tower portal world by Rebecca Evans, who has created and built interactive shows in several Virtual Reality platforms. She set her show “Sandglass Travel” in Altspace specifically around features not offered in other places, and now it’s time to move on, including rebuilding all the sets. We’re building a sense of joy around the capabilities that new platforms offer while celebrating some of the key features seen “only in Altspace” and what impact they have had on the show’s meta-narrative. How–and where–will this couple meet again when their digital world is literally crumbling around them? We’re in it till the end of it all.

On our tour of worlds by other creators, get inspired by the 300+ worlds over 7 floors of the portal tower! We’ll discuss all the types of live performances that have taken place in Altspace, and what platforms might be best suited for each going forward. Whether you are more of a audience member or a builder and artist, your perspective is welcome!

A mixed reality experience bio-electrically guided by living mycelium.

Symbiont::MyceliOhms brings Guests within a microbial old growth forest environment, sharing concepts of forest sentience, mycelial communications and how humans are connected to the shared Terrestrial environment.

During the live performance, guests will experience Nanotopia, and the space around them transform as the living mycelium brings the gallery deeper into the Wood Wide Web.

AR elements within the installation and live performance activate through Suminagashi markers made with mushroom inks and Geo-locative markers.

https://www.toscateran.com/myceliohms

An auto-biographical re-telling of the frightening events that took place on the streets of Toronto during the 2010 G20 summit protests, which saw the largest mass arrest in Canadian history and resulted in a $14.6M class action lawsuit.

We join Tommy Taylor as he recounts his journey attending his first ever protest in the “Free Speech Zone” at Queen’s Park before being swept up in a mass arrest and detained at the Eastern Avenue Detention Centre.

Originally a stage play that toured Canada in 2012, You Should Have Stayed Home was presented in virtual reality as part of FOLDA 2022.

Directed by Michael Wheeler and performed by actor and playwright Tommy Taylor, the play presents a virtual adaptation of Tommy’s original Facebook note, How I Got Arrested and Abused at the G20 in Toronto, which has been translated into seven languages and appeared in twenty-one countries. Today, Tommy’s story takes on urgent new meaning in the context of the ever-rising tensions and public dialogue on police violence, protest, and institutional reform.

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XR LIVE is an online community founded in 2020 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 decided to take the next step and organize a non-traditional exhibition featuring works from around the globe through February and March of 2023.

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 scratching the surface!

The XR LIVE Performance Exhibition itself is only a small sample of the many experiences being created by a diverse, trailblazing, and ever growing number of creators around the globe, tentatively running through the end of March 2023. There are no passes, no applications, and no jury like what you might find at a more traditional festival. Instead, all experiences are welcome and open to the public, with each experience run and ticketed by the individual creators. XR LIVE simply serves as a digital hub to facilitate, taking no payment from any of the creators or guests of their respective experiences.

Check back soon as the information available here will be rapidly expanding in the coming days, including additional show dates being added as well as additional experiences!

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