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FIVARS 2023

Aimée Reynolds — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:15:35 +0000

FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories) is celebrating its ninth year at a five-day in-person event taking place from September 15th-19th, 2023. Explore immersive arts and media with 360 videos, augmented reality, and interactive virtual reality experiences. Witness world and North American premieres, and exclusive content at the renowned IDFK gallery in the arts district.

Limited in-person tickets are available per 2-hour block, from 1 pm to 10 pm daily.

In-person ticket holders can access the online event from September 15th through October 3rd, featuring curated 360-degree videos and interactive browser-based spaces.

Book now for an unforgettable experience in the world of virtual and augmented reality!

Find tickets here FIVARS TICKETS

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VRTO Spatial Media World Conference 2023

Aimée Reynolds — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 05:20:34 +0000

Toronto Conference Offers Rare Opportunity to Interact with International Thought Leaders

Who Will Shape Our Spatialized Future

VRTO Offers Radical Thought Experiments about how the spatial computing future will evolve and invite as diverse a population as possible to the table.

Toronto, ON – VRTO (Spatial Media World Conference & Expo), Canada’s premier immersive summit zeroes in on how spatial technologies and media will transform, and advance industries, societies, and culture.

With the recent reveal of the Apple Vision Pro – long speculated across many industries, this is the best time to convene thought leadership around the future of work, education, virtual presence, and spatialized socialization. The time is now and VRTO is recognized internationally as the summit to do it.

This year marks the 8th annual Conference, taking place July 19th and 20th, 2023 in partnership with OCAD University, at their beautiful waterfront campus.

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FIVARS (Festival of Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories)

Aimée Reynolds — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 05:03:57 +0000

The 10th Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories (FIVARS) comes to stackt market – North America’s largest marketplace designed entirely out of shipping containers – as a 3-day pop-up event in Toronto from Oct 28th-30th featuring exclusive content and world premieres via two-hour ticketed viewing blocks. For those who can’t attend in-person the festival also offers a wide variety of immersive video content and live virtual performances online from Oct 28th to November 16th.

Feel the terrifying thrill of free-climbing with adventurer Alex Honnold in “The Soloist”, based on the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo.” Explore the stars alongside world-renowned particle physicist and musician Dr. Brian Cox (“Beyond the Milky Way”). Solve puzzles with Haru, a fictional shrine maiden from a parallel world (“The Tale of Onogoro”). Journey back 3.5 billion years with David Attenborough and witness the origins of life on our planet (“David Attenborough’s First Life”). With final selections from 11 countries including Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Israel, Australia, the United States, and Canada, the possibilities are endless.

All tickets include access to four special performance works, including two virtual reality real-time adventures with live actors (“Offrail”, an early glimpse of the theme parks of the future, and “MetaMovie: Alien Rescue”, a sci-fi adventure where the audience plays a starring role). Other special performances include a live one-on-one telephone conversation experience with Sylvia Plath, as performed by director Stepy Kamei (“We Should Meet in Air”), and a guided tour from Academy Award-winning VFX artist Kevin Mack through his psychedelic visionary world of living AI-driven entities (“Namuanki”).

Who is it for?

All ages

HOW MUCH

Tickets : $85 plus tax

In-person, timed entry: $85 plus tax (includes full access to all online events, content and virtual live performances)

Online only: $40 plus tax

How to get tickets?

Buy Online

WHEN & WHERE

Date: Friday October 28, 2022 to Sunday October 30, 2022

11am-8pm. Tickets are purchased for specific two-hour viewing blocks throughout the day.

Venue & Address

The Solarium at stackt market, 28 Bathurst St

Wheelchair accessible

No parking

Accessible by Public Transport

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