Virtual Terror

A blog for those interested in exploring the darkside of humanity through virtual reality. Viewers will be taken on a journey through darkness where they will experience terror and/or titillation through the minds of the psychotic or through the eyes of their victems. Or perhaps you just like to watch and satisfy your voyeuristic curiosities. What ever your pleasure or torment is, whether it be horror, perversion or depravity, it's all here in the VRR. Just be warned, you may find what you are looking for.

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The Pendulum, hyper-reality debrief

Hyper-reality experiences mixing VR with immersive theatre are going to become more part of our already varied entertainment scene (for Tom Sawyer, London... the world!)

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The Horror Of The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Comes To Virtual Reality

A book recently conveyed to me the horrors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast. But I can only imagine how much more powerful this history lesson could be if conveyed through virtual reality. That’s the ambition behind The Day the World Changed, a haunting new virtual reality film being shown this week at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The Day the World Changed — created by VR visionaries Gabo Arora and Saschka Unseld — poses the question of what the catastrophes of the past can teach us about the future. The VR imagery brings the full catastrophic impact of the atomic bomb burst over Hiroshima in World War II. The bombing and the subsequent destruction of Nagasaki brought an end to the Second World War and saved countless American lives, but it also ushered in the age of nuclear weapons. I recently read Midnight in Broad Daylight, a book about a Japanese American family that was separated by the war, with sons fighting in both the American and Japanese armies. Two of the brothers were reunited in the ruins of Hiroshima, where the destruction was intimately described. The book made a big impression on me, as did John Hersey’s Hiroshima when I read it in college many years ago. Such books preserve the memory of the horrific period of history, but the younger generation may never get around to reading them. But VR is a modern medium. The filmmakers say their project shows how virtual reality can go beyond mere theatrics to spark critical social conversations and, ultimately, change. The film was produced with support from the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and it is making its official premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. The AR/VR studio Tomorrow Never Knows is presenting The Day the World Changed in collaboration with International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Built as an “Interactive Virtual Reality Memorial,” the VR film brings viewers the harrowing impressions of the victims and survivors of atomic bombings and nuclear arms testing through firsthand testimonies, data visualizations, 3D scanning, and photogrammetry. The film will run in the Virtual Arcade that runs April 20-29 at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. The VR will be available on SteamVR. It was built with the Unity game engine. Above: Tribeca Film Festival Image Credit: Tribeca Film Festival Co-created by award-winning filmmakers and virtual reality pioneers Arora and Unseld and produced by Jennifer Tiexiera, the social, interactive experience pairs groundbreaking technologies with rare survivor testimonies from Hiroshima to bring the terror of nuclear war to vivid life. “Over the years, we have been desensitized to the consequences of nuclear war,” said Arora, in a statement. “We are living in a time when our Commander-in-Chief and leaders of other nations are openly calling for more nuclear weapons, taunting each other over their capabilities. Our intention with this work is to give voice to those victims of nuclear war asking the world to face this shared history and to recognize the true horror of these weapons.” Added Unseld, “We [...]

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VR horror series ‘Campfire Creepers’ showcased at Tribeca Film Festival

Stories told around the campfire are a horror movie staple, and veteran director Alexandre Aja has brought the genre into virtual reality with a new anthology series. With the premiere of the first episode at the Tribeca Film Festival, the first two episodes are free to watch on Oculus and Gear VR.

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Paratopic is a short, grimy horror game with a style straight out of 1998

Everything fuzzes into a vaguely 20th century nightmarescape

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VR Company Hidden Content Launches With Premiere Of 'The Caretaker' At Tribeca - horrorfuel.com

Filmmakers Jacob Wasserman, Adam Donald, and Ant Gentile have announced the formation of Hidden Content, a full-service virtual reality company. Their first project was unveiled earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival with the world premiere of their narrative 360 Cinema project The Caretaker, the first installment of an original horror anthology …

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This Is the Most Fucked Up Virtual World Ever Devised

Sex with robots and getting beamed up to a giant spaceship.