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One example is “Atumo,” an immersive work based on Kenyan mythology that puts viewers around a computer-generated tree alongside digital dancers.Īugmented reality - the technology that places digital images in real-world scenarios, familiar to players of mobile games like “Pokémon Go” or “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” - gets a workout in such installations as “Dance Trail,” which puts dancers in locations around Park City, and “Breathe,” which allows viewers to see what happens to air as it enters and leaves one’s lungs.

New Frontier Central is home to the Biodigital Theatre, a presentation space with a rotating schedule of room-sized VR performances.

And both sites will include a variety of media installations and panel discussions. The venues are accessible to anyone with a festival credential.īoth sites will have a VR Cinema, where small groups will be given goggles to watch the same program of short VR films at the same time. New Frontier installations will go up at two locations in Park City during the festival - New Frontier at The Ray, and New Frontier Central (in what used to be a Blockbuster Video store) - on opposite sides of the Fresh Market grocery store on Park Avenue. For other parts of New Frontier, “I pretty much have to go out and get them,” Frilot said. Selecting titles for New Frontier’s VR Cinema works much like the rest of the festival, Frilot said, with artists submitting VR films in an open call from which the best are chosen. One example Frilot cited as a new step in VR is “Flowers & a Switchblade.” Where most VR works to date involve digital cameras on a 360-degree rigging, and images seamlessly put together by computers, artists Nic Koller and Weston Morgan built their own rig with iPhones. “We’re throwing the lasso, and hoping we’re going to grab a relevant moment in January,” Frilot said.

Wild west: new frontier leaving facebook