{"id":19999,"date":"2025-09-05T15:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/meet-your-descendants-and-your-future-self-a-trip-to-venice-film-festivals-extended-reality-island\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:38:18","slug":"meet-your-descendants-and-your-future-self-a-trip-to-venice-film-festivals-extended-reality-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/meet-your-descendants-and-your-future-self-a-trip-to-venice-film-festivals-extended-reality-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet your descendants \u2013 and your future self! A trip to Venice film festival\u2019s extended reality island"},"content":{"rendered":"

A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer space<\/p>\n

In the largest cinema at the Venice film festival, guests gather for the premiere of Frankenstein<\/a>, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s lavish account of a man who dared to play God and created a monster. When the young scientist reanimates a dead body for his colleagues, some see it as a trick while others are outraged. \u201cIt\u2019s an abomination, an obscenity,\u201d shouts one hide-bound old timer, and his alarm is partly justified. Every technological breakthrough opens Pandora\u2019s box. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to crawl out or where it will then choose to go.<\/p>\n

Behind the main festival venue sits the small ruined island of Lazzaretto Vecchio. Since 2017, it\u2019s been home to Venice Immersive, the event\u2019s groundbreaking section dedicated to showcasing and supporting XR (extended reality) storytelling. Before that it was a storage facility, before that a plague quarantine zone. Eliza McNitt, this year\u2019s jury president, remembers the time when work on the exhibits had to be paused because the builders had uncovered human bones in the ground. \u201cThere\u2019s something haunting about the fact that we come to the oldest film festival in the world to present this new form of cinema,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re exploring the medium of the future, but we\u2019re also in conversation with ghosts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nA flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer space
\nIn the largest cinema at the Venice film festival, guests gather for the premiere of Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s lavish account of a man who dared to play God and created a monster. When the young scientist reanimates a dead body for his colleagues, some see it as a trick while others are outraged. \u201cIt\u2019s an abomination, an obscenity,\u201d shouts one hide-bound old timer, and his alarm is partly justified. Every technological breakthrough opens Pandora\u2019s box. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to crawl out or where it will then choose to go.
\nBehind the main festival venue sits the small ruined island of Lazzaretto Vecchio. Since 2017, it\u2019s been home to Venice Immersive, the event\u2019s groundbreaking section dedicated to showcasing and supporting XR (extended reality) storytelling. Before that it was a storage facility, before that a plague quarantine zone. Eliza McNitt, this year\u2019s jury president, remembers the time when work on the exhibits had to be paused because the builders had uncovered human bones in the ground. \u201cThere\u2019s something haunting about the fact that we come to the oldest film festival in the world to present this new form of cinema,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re exploring the medium of the future, but we\u2019re also in conversation with ghosts.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer space In the largest cinema at the Venice film festival, guests gather for the premiere of Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s lavish account of a man who dared to play God and created a monster. When the young scientist reanimates a …<\/p>\n

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