VR adventure game Museum of Symmetry can be enjoyed with HTC Vive VR headset
Montreal, Aug 15 (IBNS): Get ready to explore the Museum of Symmetry (MOS), an absurdist mind-and-body romp through the highest clouds to the ocean deep, with your HTC Vive VR headset.
Museum of Symmetry is a feel-good alter-universe created by cartoonist and animator Paloma Dawkins, and brought to life by pioneer VR studio Casa Rara.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the adventure game is a room-scale virtual reality (VR) experience with 2D animation in a 3D playground, and can be downloaded for free from Steam and Viveport.
Museum of Symmetry takes the player through earth, fire, wind and water, disrupting conventional game storytelling to create an unexpected pleasure-positive trip through nature and self, say the producers.
An impish game mistress welcomes the player into the pleasure dome inspired by geometry and nature and wired with dance beats.
Headquartered in Montreal, NFB is one of the world’s leading digital content hubs and creates interactive documentaries and animation, mobile content, installations and participatory experiences and have won have won 100 awards, including 18 Webbys.
Produced by Maral Mohammadian and executive produced by Michael Fukushima for the NFB, MOS is NFB’s Oscar-winning Animation Studio’s first foray into interactive VR.
The goal is to offer the player a fantastical journey that is both emotional and physical, and to test the possibilities for suspending disbelief in VR, said the producers.
Museum of Symmetry was launched in April 2018 at A MAZE, the 7th International Games and Playful Media Festival in Berlin, followed by a selection to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival’s VR@ANNECY section, featuring 11 virtual reality experiences chosen from among 75 original works from 18 countries, according to a release.
Museum of Symmetry will have its Canadian festival premiere this fall, in the Virtual Reality Official Competition at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, September 26 to 30.
Between August 12 and 16, it is at SIGGRAPH 2018—the world’s largest and most prestigious computer graphics conference and industry event— showcased in the Immersive Pavilion.
Museum of Symmetry is produced by Maral Mohammadian and executive produced by Michael Fukushima for the NFB.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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