Real Virtuality at Sundance Film Festival New Frontier

Feb 5, 2016Events, Production, R&D

FESTIVAL · SUNDANCE 2016

Real Virtuality was selected at the 2016 Sundance’s New Frontier Festival that took place on January 21–31 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.

The festival is one of the world’s premier places to debut new independent films and highlights the best in storytelling technology.

With the support of swissnex San Francisco and Pro Helvetia, Artanim showcased there a new VR scenario mixing real and virtual worlds. Users participated in a time machine experience where they were transported into different futuristic environments: a space station, Dark City and a cave.

The VR experience and the technology were incredibly well welcomed, as the following quotes can attest:

The latest Real Virtuality experience at Sundance is an epic new level of advancement. It is as close as we can get to a holodeck for now.

Jonathan Nafarrete, Journalist, VR Scout

The mother lode of Sundance. The most daringly original VR presentation I’ve seen, “Real Virtuality” shows how big the medium can be.

Steven Zeitchik, Journalist, Los Angeles Times

What’s cooler than VR? Not much except maybe Real Virtuality by Artanim.

James Finn, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communication, 20th Century Fox

Several big names also tested our Real Virtuality system. Just to name one, Robert Redford, founder of Sundance characterized our experience as “Spectacular”!