Mar 06 2025 55 mins 13
The SXSW XR Experience Selection runs from March 9-11 and contains 15 pieces in competition and 16 pieces in the spotlight, and I had a chance to chat with SXSW's XR programmer Blake Kammerdiener about each of these pieces. He provides some highlights from the XR Track Sessions at SXSW, and also mentions that there is an immersive piece called NOWISWHENWEARE (the stars) that is showing on March 11th & 12th. See down below for some more links to different SXSW events.
Here is a list of the XR experiences being shown at SXSW, and I will update this post as I post my Voices of VR podcast interviews as I've featured a dozen projects in my previous coverage.
SXSW XR Experience Competition
1906 Atlanta Race Massacre
Any War Any Enemy - #1490: “Any War Any Enemy” is a Beautiful Anti-War, Immersive Poem About Nuclear Annihilation
Cosmos in Focus
Currents
Face Jumping
Honey Fungus
In the Current of Being
Proof As If Proof Were Needed
Reflections of Little Red Dot
Shelter
The Choice - Chapters 2 and 3 - [See my coverage of Chapter 1: #1075: Stereoscopic Compositing Innovations & “The Choice” Interactive Documentary Exploring Reproductive Rights in Texas]
The Last Practice
The Secret Life of Monsters - The Gateway Experience
Traces: The Grief Processor
Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History
SXSW XR Experience Spotlight
Address Unknown: Fukushima Now - #1438: Honoring the Memory of Abandoned Ghost Towns with “Address Unknown: Fukushima Now”
All I Know About Teacher Li - #1452: Immersive Documentary about Chinese Censorship “All I Know About Teacher Li” Tops Venice Immersive Audience Favorites Survey
Ancestors - #1507: From Selfies to Virtual Offspring, “Ancestors” Turns Strangers into Family and Intergenerational Speculative Futures
Anouschka - #1334: “Anouschka” Wins IDFA DocLab Digital Storytelling Award with AR Narrative Game about Cultural Heritage
A Number From the Ghost
EchoVision
Fly To You
Future Botanica - #1514: Creating GenAI Flower Ecosystem with “Future Botanica” AR App
Just for You Trilogy
All That Remains - #1126: Re-creating Experimental Theatre 1:1 Encounters via 360 video with “All That Remains”
Over the Rainbow - #1250: Translating 1:1 Experimental Theatre Encounters into 360 Video to Transcend Expectations with Craig Quintero
A Simple Silence - #1422: “A Simple Silence” Wraps Up Craig Quintero’s Trilogy Exploring Spatial Transformations & Immersive Encounters
Origins - Life's Epic Journey
Oto's Planet
Resolution: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul
Sweet!
Symphoni
The Art of Change - #1446: Studio Syro’s “The Art Of Change” is the Best Immersive Music Video Experience I’ve Seen So Far Pushing at the Edges of Spatial Grammar
Uncanny Alley: A New Day - #1442: Combining VRChat Worldbuilding with Immersive Theatre Storytelling in “Uncanny Alley: A New Day”
SXSW XR Events
Spreadsheet of Unofficial List of Parties & Events @ SXSW 2025 for the XR Commun...
Here is a list of the XR experiences being shown at SXSW, and I will update this post as I post my Voices of VR podcast interviews as I've featured a dozen projects in my previous coverage.
SXSW XR Experience Competition
1906 Atlanta Race Massacre
Any War Any Enemy - #1490: “Any War Any Enemy” is a Beautiful Anti-War, Immersive Poem About Nuclear Annihilation
Cosmos in Focus
Currents
Face Jumping
Honey Fungus
In the Current of Being
Proof As If Proof Were Needed
Reflections of Little Red Dot
Shelter
The Choice - Chapters 2 and 3 - [See my coverage of Chapter 1: #1075: Stereoscopic Compositing Innovations & “The Choice” Interactive Documentary Exploring Reproductive Rights in Texas]
The Last Practice
The Secret Life of Monsters - The Gateway Experience
Traces: The Grief Processor
Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History
SXSW XR Experience Spotlight
Address Unknown: Fukushima Now - #1438: Honoring the Memory of Abandoned Ghost Towns with “Address Unknown: Fukushima Now”
All I Know About Teacher Li - #1452: Immersive Documentary about Chinese Censorship “All I Know About Teacher Li” Tops Venice Immersive Audience Favorites Survey
Ancestors - #1507: From Selfies to Virtual Offspring, “Ancestors” Turns Strangers into Family and Intergenerational Speculative Futures
Anouschka - #1334: “Anouschka” Wins IDFA DocLab Digital Storytelling Award with AR Narrative Game about Cultural Heritage
A Number From the Ghost
EchoVision
Fly To You
Future Botanica - #1514: Creating GenAI Flower Ecosystem with “Future Botanica” AR App
Just for You Trilogy
All That Remains - #1126: Re-creating Experimental Theatre 1:1 Encounters via 360 video with “All That Remains”
Over the Rainbow - #1250: Translating 1:1 Experimental Theatre Encounters into 360 Video to Transcend Expectations with Craig Quintero
A Simple Silence - #1422: “A Simple Silence” Wraps Up Craig Quintero’s Trilogy Exploring Spatial Transformations & Immersive Encounters
Origins - Life's Epic Journey
Oto's Planet
Resolution: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul
Sweet!
Symphoni
The Art of Change - #1446: Studio Syro’s “The Art Of Change” is the Best Immersive Music Video Experience I’ve Seen So Far Pushing at the Edges of Spatial Grammar
Uncanny Alley: A New Day - #1442: Combining VRChat Worldbuilding with Immersive Theatre Storytelling in “Uncanny Alley: A New Day”
SXSW XR Events
Spreadsheet of Unofficial List of Parties & Events @ SXSW 2025 for the XR Commun...
