VR touring exhibition U.K.

Krupa

I’ve mentioned over the last year that I’ve been working on one of the varied pieces that are finally touring the U.K. and promised I’d share more detail when I could. Obviously I totally forgot, until I went to the launch of the local leg in Blackpool yesterday. It was great to see it made real and meet the teams I’ve been working remotely with, as well as hang out with my tertiary family who we made the film piece about…

More detail here

https://story-trails.com/locations/

The show continues to tour for another few weeks, is in Blackpool today and tomorrow before moving onto Bradford next week. I’ll probably go there as well as it’s even nearer to home…

We made the ‘Promenade’ piece, which details a positive story of economic migration, the integration of a family into U.K. society over eighty years. It was lovely to see an octogenarian lady emerge from a headset exclaiming that although she’d lived in the town for her whole life, she’d never heard of our story and was made up to to immediately meet the main character in person. Engagement brief fulfilled in moments 🎉

More detail specific to our piece here

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d06c5317d57d4c98b63f28a60bf7e964

Svetlovska

Sounds amazing! Well done That Holiday footage from Blackpool 1957 is utterly surreal stuff. Must have been fun working with resource material like that.

Krupa

@Svetlovska said:
Sounds amazing! Well done That Holiday footage from Blackpool 1957 is utterly surreal stuff. Must have been fun working with resource material like that.

Yeah definitely, I love working with archive, and I was pleased with the way I got it to sit within the artwork, bringing life to it and adding a layer of reality to an otherwise quite surreal experience.

The vr stuff will be available free on the quest store in perpetuity I think, I’m not so sure about the AR stuff, but I’d hope so; the Blackpool one has a history trail called the queercoaster which looks at the unique history of queer culture there, there were lots of trans folk about at the launch yesterday who were having a lot of fun with it all. If you can make it it would probably be worth it, although I know that the train from yours to their isn’t as easy as it should be, can’t they’ve never built a line that goes direct…

Svetlovska

Right about the trains! As a transplant from the pampered Sarf, I was used to (relatively) trouble free commutes of the 60 odd miles from the coast to the smoke taking an hour or less, no prob. Imagine my shock when I discovered what East-West communications up here were like… three changes and a couple of hours to go twenty miles being one example. It honestly being faster to cycle than try and take a train. Etcetera…

Krupa

@Svetlovska said:
Right about the trains! As a transplant from the pampered Sarf, I was used to (relatively) trouble free commutes of the 60 odd miles from the coast to the smoke taking an hour or less, no prob. Imagine my shock when I discovered what East-West communications up here were like… three changes and a couple of hours to go twenty miles being one example. It honestly being faster to cycle than try and take a train. Etcetera…

Totally, as a returnee in the north, I’d got spoiled in that London and forgotten just how bad it was up here, 1.5 hours to go thirty odd miles yesterday, and that’s a direct train 😂

GeoTony

Looks great @Krupa , wish you all the best with it and if I’m in the right place at the right time will drop in to see it.

Krupa

@GeoTony said:
Looks great @Krupa , wish you all the best with it and if I’m in the right place at the right time will drop in to see it.

Wicked, nice one, definitely worth it. I popped into the Bradford one yesterday (which is still open for a couple of hours) and even just the wraparound films they’re making in each location are worth the trip… I think the vr stuff will mostly be available long term on the quest store, and the libraries apparently have the option to retain a headset as a legacy. The AR stuff will also continue to be available on app stores after the events from what I heard in the talk yesterday…

knewspeak

@Krupa said:

@Svetlovska said:
Right about the trains! As a transplant from the pampered Sarf, I was used to (relatively) trouble free commutes of the 60 odd miles from the coast to the smoke taking an hour or less, no prob. Imagine my shock when I discovered what East-West communications up here were like… three changes and a couple of hours to go twenty miles being one example. It honestly being faster to cycle than try and take a train. Etcetera…

Totally, as a returnee in the north, I’d got spoiled in that London and forgotten just how bad it was up here, 1.5 hours to go thirty odd miles yesterday, and that’s a direct train 😂

Engineers used to think you’d get sucked out of the carriage past the speed of 100mph, up north we get sucked into a stupa below 20mph