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joint venture between composer Anna Meredith and artists 59 Productions that explores methods of communication used during World War One
including telegrams, propaganda, and letters from the trenches.The result is a virtual concert in two parts: an immersive recording of
Meredith's composition performed by the BBC Orchestra on the first night of the Proms, and a short, deeply moving first-person experience
up to us."These were incredibly popular with the soldiers because they bypassed the censorship, and you could send this home in two days
fact people loved sending these because even though you couldn't actually say anything with them in terms of words, there was that sense of
It's the equivalent of sending a text message was just a kiss in it
Ashton and his team plenty of space to experiment with shifting perspectives
do best is create sense of location and take you to a place, so that was definitely in my mind when we were writing this and figuring it
this idea with the postcards, because it's a multiple-choice postcard until it's filled in there's the idea that all of these options
opacity fade between two objects
particularly pleased with the long-exposure forms of nurses moving between beds in the field hospital
a little processing afterwards to come down from that
A large part of the shared experience of going to the cinema or theater is talking about it afterwards, rather than necessarily interacting
concert can beLysander Ashton, 59 ProductionsAshton says that installing VR works in public spaces is essential for reaching a wide audience
isn't just it isn't just an orchestra on stage
optics and the whole package made me think that it makes a lot of sense to do something for this level of headset, because you can get the
of content specifically designed for these headsets goes up quite a lot, I can see people getting them for Christmas and them quickly ending
sessions running from 7pm