I had the amazing opportunity this year to curate the VR Zone for the UKs largest family friendly film festival! After loving volunteering last year, I was so excited to be put with this role for 2018!
Through co-curation I helped organise the content of the VR Zone, the experiences we had, the headsets, everything. From hire, to reaching out to companies such as the BBC asking for content. This was a huge step for me, and an unfamiliar one, which I loved! I have learnt so many valuable skills from this role in events organisation. Being ontop of email threads, the world of CCs, previously unchartered territory now a daily endeavour.
I curated a range of experiences, both educational and entertaining!
Our experiences section included:
Coco vr
Fantastic Beasts
Alumette
Wonderful You
Apollo 11
Queen Vic - BBC
Suitable for a range of ages of children and adult.
We also had 2 X Tilt Brush and Blocks set ups, with a Google Expeditions and Cardboard Drop in. As well as Leeds University hosting a VR Drop-in with a PSVR, such a brilliant connection we made with them.
Heres a tutorial I made for the volunteers to learn how to use Blocks and Tilt Brush:
I even created/illustrated a VR Onboarding guide for the volunteers:
Posted on social media:
What a range of VR!
Here are the floor plans I created of the zone:
The Zone was such a success, it was so busy! Non stop footfall throughout Easter weekend. Making us eager for expansion next year. Friday had a stressful beginning getting used to the process, but from midday it went fantastic, once we all had a routine.
Tech didnt fully behave, but it was easily sortable with no ones experiences ruined, which is always fantastic with VR!
The volunteers which I trained up everyday were amazing, couldn't have hoped for anyone better! For them to learn a whole new piece of technology, and have the confidence to onboard children into it and have the knowledge to look after them whilst in it, is so amazing and they did great.
I even made a VR experience out of the best Tilt Brush/Blocks works:
All the childrens' works can be viewed here:
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