Projects of type: XR / Immersive

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An immersive VR story following Maya, an ordinary British Asian girl, as she transforms into a uniquely female superhero whose powers derive from menstruation. With the arrival of her period, Maya’s world is transformed as she is confronted by her family's restrictive traditions, and a world of hidden of stigma and taboo. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2023 Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Immersive Competition - International premiere (English language version)

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A powerful exploration into the implications of today's AI technology. An immersive film experience set in a future world where people are resisting weaponised technology and bias algorithms in favour of AI Democratisation which has now become a human rights issue. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - Winner XR Experience Competition Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2023 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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This installation investigates the connections between repetitive stimming behaviours that are common in autism, the earliest forms of moving images and contemporary digital art. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A multi-sensory joyride into the past, bringing to life the stories of the promoters, police officers, and rave-goers, whose rivalries and relationships drove a revolution in music and society. Multi-sensory room-scale interactive VR enables participants to feel the anticipation, trepidation, excitement, and euphoria that was Acid House. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2022 Official Selection IDFA 2022 - Winner, DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - XR Experience Spotlight Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025

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THE HOUSE is a 25 minute experience on a VR headset which uses a house as a metaphor for Northern Ireland and puts the player in role as a potential resident. The piece was created following a successful run in both West and East Belfast of a live experience through a domestic house. THE HOUSE was created with the Commission for Victims and Survivors, using their research into post conflict inter-generational trauma, 25 years on from the GFA.

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'Escape to Shanghai' follows Doris’s epic journey from Germany to safety in Shanghai, on the other side of the world making a temporary home and a new life cut off from the horrors playing out in German-occupied Europe.

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An immersive 360 experience created by Human Studio interpreting three scenes from an original short story by Nick Bax. The Neon Pack is a Protopian Tale which takes place in a very near future where XR technology is seamlessly fused into our everyday lives, enhancing even the most mundane of activities. The project was commissioned by Hope Works and match-funded by XR Stories (University of York) and attempts to provoke thought and discussion regarding the development and proliferation of XR technology and content. To date, ‘The Neon Pack’ has been exhibited at Sónar+D (Barcelona, 2023), the Immersive Futures Lab, SXSW, (Austin, Texas, 2023) and BEYOND, Cardiff City Hall (2022). An augmented reality iteration of the project was also displayed in Sheffield city centre until 2025 as part of the ‘Look Up’ AR artworks project. The Neon Pack features original soundtrack by 96 Back on CPU Records.

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FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth’s meditative imagery bears witness to landscapes in flux. The impact of human behaviour and the immense force of nature unfolds around you across an array of screens. This is a space where your perspective may shift. Official Selection La Biennale Venice 2022

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As our world strains under the weight of unprecedented global migration and colonial extraction, this animated virtual reality documentary immerses participants in one of the largest forced migrations in human history: the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. CHILD OF EMPIRE takes audiences through a deeply personal perspective of this epic historical event. Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim who made the opposite journey — share childhood memories of their experiences while playing a board game. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - New Frontier - World premiere

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The Universe is revolving around me in a bad way.” Through mind-bending animation, GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY explores the limits of reality in this true story of so-called ‘schizophrenia’ and the power of gaming communities.

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Virtual reality project by Human Studio seeking to demonstrate the ‘personality of a place’, via a combination of original 360° filming, archive imagery and audio interviews. Official Selection Immersive Futures Lab, BEYOND 2022 (Cardiff)