There's a plague of nightmares running rampant through Brighton City that has its victims fall into fear induced comas. It seems the only one who can save them is an 11-year-old girl named Mara that can access the Nightmare World when she sleeps.

The story of a South Asian girl coming of age and the awakening of her sexuality. She must overcome her own shame and fear to find her inner strength and true super-powers. With the arrival of her first period Maya’s world is turned upside down as she is confronted by the restrictive traditions of her conservative family and a world of hidden shame, stigma and taboo in contemporary London.

"Soulpaint" exists at the nexus of immersive technology, creative storytelling and wellbeing to explore the richness of the embodied human experience. Participants are taken on a journey to explore and creatively express feelings of emotion and sensations in the body. Through the process of bodymapping, 3D drawing and movement, they are invited to reveal their unique inner reality and then observe the creations of others. Using interactive technology in a genre-pushing way, this experience encourages new forms of embodied insight, allowing us to reflect on the diversity of human experience on an individual and global level. 源自：

VR Through a series of leaps in time from the 1970s to a post-Anthropocene future, we follow in the footsteps of a mysterious creature.

VR "Impulse" is a groundbreaking MR experience that playfully explores what it means to live with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We start amongst the inner workings of the brain as we learn about how we process and make sense of the world. Next, we meet four characters whose stories and environments spill out into the room around us in breath-taking MR. We discover the different ways in which ADHD can affect people as we follow their real-life testimony, told in their own words. Reflecting on our own interactions as well as diverse life stories and perspectives, we experience the complexity of ADHD and consider how systems around us could change to make space for us all.

SXSW 2024 - XR Experience Competition Inspired by “The Woman with Two Skins” of Southern Nigeria, the story follows Young Thang, a human girl living within The Community, a place where humans are forbidden; deemed dangerous and ugly. To blend in and survive, Young Thang’s guardians urge her to wear a second skin to transform her appearance. After the pressure to conform pushes Young Thang to the brink, she unknowingly puts her beloved guardians and The Community in peril. Can Young Thang find the courage to reveal her full self and save the very beings that discriminate and suppress her? 源自：

【科幻之眼重塑工業之城，海影倒映魔幻時刻】在一個充滿蒸汽的工業城裡，兩名探險隊員，彼爾與兔兔，發現海面上的城市倒影有異狀，發現海底下有個一模一樣的城市。海下城市帶著歷史文化記憶的奇幻魅力，兩人的能力彷彿受感召而淨化並且升級，重生的力量有如嘉年華繽紛展開…

故事源自法文「監視」（Surveillance），英文原意為「在空中的眼睛」（Eyes in the sky），空中的眼睛正凝視土地上發生的所有事物。《自監體》是一段美好、發人深省，且同時兼具幽默及深刻反思的體驗過程。觀者將目不轉睛地探索《自監體》的起源及發展脈絡，了解人類社會與「監視／被監視」共同交織的故事。經由一系列黑暗旅程後，觀者將了解「監視」是如何以各種形式深植文化，甚至影響我們對真實的認知。然而，為了超脫監視的框架思考，我們更需要了解它的歷史和成因，才能加以逃脫，並超越它所帶來的約束。

SXSW 2024 - XR Experience Competition "Madame Pirate: Code of Conduct" is a 6DOF room-scale VR experience. The story is told mixing comic strip format and live action 4DView. It is an immersive voyage of discovery in the world of 19th Century Chinese pirates. Directional sound and layered appearances of moving tableaux reveals to the audience how a woman pirate captain( ZYS) lead 70,000 pirates to resist the Qing Dynasty’s corrupt leaders and their armies, and got away with it. 源自：

SXSW 2024 - XR Experience Competition “The Tent” is a Mixed Reality cinematic tabletop narrative and a glimpse of the future of immersive entertainment. A modern fairy tale set in Los Angeles, "The Tent" interrogates the nature of activism and asks the viewer, “What does it take to live a life according to your deepest held values? Why is it so complicated to be a good person?" A 21-minute experience in two parts for iPadPro, it allows the audience to explore a miniature world from any perspective. Built with volumetric video, it draws upon 2500 years of Acting and Storytelling that is at the core of our shared humanity. It’s a drama. It's a satire. It's a petite bourgeoise fever dream and a fable for society. 源自：

We live in a new epoch known as the Anthropocene, marked by mass human influence on the planet. Exclusively shot from Earth skies in 360 VR, 21-22 China takes us on an immersive meditative journey for a rare look inside China, the World’s largest rising superpower, where rapid urbanization, major industrial development and massive changes are taking place. 21-22 is an ongoing project bringing a series of compelling 360 VR films made exclusively for VR headsets. Each film exploring different regions of the planet for revealing the entropic v negentropic states in the Anthropocene. The 21-22 VR films ultimately offer a unique beyond-human-scale perspective on the planet in these times of global change, climate challenges and the Sixth mass extinction currently underway.

IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction Step into the body of a young Taiwanese man to roam the steamy rooms and red-lit corridors of a surreal gay sauna—with thin mattresses, shared showers and lockers holding secrets. Everywhere you go, you encounter the same nude men with identical faces. And when you look in the mirror in this animated VR, you see all your clothes—except for your underwear—vanish. Walking further into this dimly lit network of corridors—watching, and being watched—you navigate your way through what feels like an erotic underground labyrinth. This concluding part of The Mist Trilogy by director Tung-yen Chou, following In the Mist (2020) and Gazing, In the Mist (2022) is a journey into a hidden world, from the graffiti-covered elevator to the darkrooms where you find the bodies with the help of a flashlight. In the real world, meanwhile, you are walking around a large open area, enhancing the physical feeling of being in a real sauna. The feeling is magnified as you physically engage with live performers through the intimate yet secure lens of virtual reality. 源自：

Sixty years after President Kennedy’s assassination, dive into the archives and the testimonies of the last living witnesses of the case to travel back in time thanks to the radically new medium of virtual reality. 源自：

The housing market in South Korea is tight, and animator Sunghwan Lee moves from one semi-basement to another temporary home. This situation, combined with his difficult childhood, got him thinking. What is a home? What makes a house a home? In colorful animations, he explores the concept through his memories of his father’s childhood home, a 300-year-old traditional Korean residential complex that has been declared a cultural heritage site. This safe place is a vehicle for the countless memories of many people. In this VR experience, the smooth and beautifully animated journey through time and space goes from the carefully preserved objects on his father’s desk to the few things Lee himself cherishes: the things that make a place feel like home for him. Ultimately, he wants nothing more than to himself build a house to store all his memories. 源自：

SXSW 2024 - XR Experience Spotlight Lebanon has been facing one of the most severe economic downfalls in the world since 2019. Inflation has skyrocketed, electricity is scarce, life is a constant struggle for many. But despite the hardships, there is hope for a better future. Meet and engage with Rafik, Josephine and Batoul, three young Lebanese who stayed in the country despite the hardships. Explore their realities and listen to their stories and dreams. The documentary utilizes cutting-edge volumetric video, stereoscopic 360 and 3D animation technologies that enable viewers to engage in an holographic interview with young Lebanese from various walks of life and different places of the country to explore their realities. 源自：

VR Inspired by Philippine mythology, the story focuses on Apolaki, Mayari, Tala, and Hanan, the four immortal children of the recently passed creator god, Bathala. As each of these deities wrestle with the grief of losing Bathala, their all-powerful actions create ripples throughout the universe. Can the siblings come together to defeat their own pain and learn how to accept the devastating loss before the world their father entrusted to them suffers from a celestial catastrophe? Vol II: Mahal from the Reimagined Series is a poignant tale about the price of love, and a touching tribute to the director's late father.

SXSW 2024 - XR Experience Competition Hidden in the lost belongings of an Astrobiologist are clues for the journey ahead. Welcome to "Astra," your ticket to the stars. This Mixed Reality Experience transports you from Earth to the deepest corners of the cosmos as you embark on a quest to uncover the key ingredients of life in the Universe. Step foot on planets and their dark moons in a search for future worlds and far away beings. 源自：

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling You’ve heard of a running coach, someone to keep your motivation high. Now, imagine this: what if the coach is a mouse? Inspired by her pet mice and the use of mice in labs, artist and technologist Jiabao Li created Squeeker: The Mouse Coach. It’s a running program, app, and interactive installation that invites participants to run and to contemplate. How layered can the relationship among animals, humans, scientific research and everyday technology be? To take part in the installation, you run on a treadmill. A digital mouse, running on a spinning wheel leads your running speed. If the participants’ accumulative running distance matches the mouse’s daily half-marathon, we will open a bottle of champagne in the evening. Scan the QR code to follow your coach Squeeker on your phone. Then, every time the mouse takes off a spirited run, you’ll get a notification and, perhaps, a jolt of inspiration to run together. Each mile you run earns you a mile to scroll on social media and a treat for your coach. Cue, action, reward—one paw at a time! Supported by Onassis ONX Studios 源自：

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling The portraits of the smiling young people on the photo wall could give you the impression that everyone is having a great time, but the South African artist Aluta Null doesn’t go along with all that pretense. In this interactive AR experience, winner of the XR Award at the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival earlier this year, Null explores the darkness and complexity of mental illness, mental health issues and drug addiction. It’s very hard to explain, let alone understand, what it feels like when your head is falling apart. This is the reason for Null’s choice of ghosts as the main characters. Their elusive state between life and death focuses attention on the confusing or frightening emotions that mental health problems can bring. Despite the extremely serious subject, Null doesn’t shy away from black, absurd humor, and the effect is both supportive and relieving. What’s the best choice of alcohol to wash down your pills with, and will it kind of go with your Froot Loops? 源自：

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling Headsets, computer monitors and a dashboard with sales statistics. From the appearance of it, this is a call center. But unlike a call center that inundates you with insurance policy offers or phone contracts, this one sells new kinds of carbon offsets that turn capitalist logic on its head. In this hybrid installation developed by artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, the roles are reversed. You become the salesperson, and your clients are corporate heads of high-emission companies. Your goal is to sell them offsets generated through “Industrial Sabotage as Temporary Carbon Storage,” a methodology that calculates carbon credits from direct action. Offset: Boiler Room offers a critical look at existing carbon compensation schemes and is part of the Offset series, through which the artists envision a compensation market radically different from the current one. 100% of the revenue from the successful sales will be donated to relevant activist organizations. 源自：