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Type :
VR Experience
Released :
3 / 2015
Primary Roles :
Creative & Production Consultant
Involvement :
Concept through final delivery
Responsibilities :
Creative and production consulting, business development, hiring, publishing management
Recognition :
- Protoawards 2015 - Best Sound Design (nominee)
- Protoawards 2015 - Best Art Direction (nominee)
- Exhibited at Los Angeles National History Museum in 2017
- Launch title - HTC Vive
Media :
Viveport Download
Venture Beat Article
Description :
Experience the awe and wonder of the undersea with this popular introduction to VR. theBlu: Encounter transports audiences deep under the ocean. On the deck of a sunken ship players come face to face with the largest species on Earth, an encounter which creates a sense of uncanny scale and unexpected empathy.
Platforms :
Steam, Oculus, Transport, Viveport
Partners :
Wevr, Jake Rowell
TheBlu : Encounter is an early award-winning VR experience that gives participants an intimate underwater experience with a Blue Whale.
I moved onto theBlu : Encounter after the success of theBluVR and worked closely with Director Jake Rowell and Producer Max Geiger in building this pre-release Vive title
I demo’d an early version of theBlu : Encounter at SXSW to a quadriplegic gentleman in a wheelchair. Afterwards we spoke for some time, with tears in his eyes, about how the experience affected him. This moment solidified my opinion of VR as an important, inclusive, and powerful medium and it is an interaction I will never forget.
theBlu : Encounter was later expanded into a commercial VR experience - theBlu : Season 1