My top 17 personal favorites from Venice Immersive 2023:
LETTERS FROM DRANCY: For excellence in mixing showing and telling aspects of spatial storytelling. I was moved the most by this piece. Lots of interesting mixtures of styles and forms ground in 360 video, but adding in layers of projection mapping techniques, animation all to have a great balance between showing and telling this story that really sticks the landing in the end.
EMPEREUR (EMPEROR)
A very high-level of technical polish in terms of spatial storytelling, solid story, and the best embodied interactions that are directly tied into advancing the narrative
FLOATING WITH SPIRITS
Very rich elaboration of Indigenous philosophy through the four elements using point cloud abstractions, and also really touching anthropological capture of Day of the Dead death rituals and connections to ancestors. ...
See the full story here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/venice-immersive-88529050