IMMERSIVE CONTENT

IMMERSIVE CONTENT

IN DEVELOPMENT/ PRODUCTION

WALK THE CONGO XR

Total Immersion with a Unique Expedition to the Congo

Media Farm Studios and our XR production partners will create a 6-part immersive series as a companion to the Walk the Congo Expedition's feature documentary.

Viewers will be brought into a rarely-visited world, the magic of immersive media allowing audiences to forge an emotional bond with the people, places and animals they are seeing.

While Congo is a country that is often portrayed as riven with conflict, the Walk the Congo expedition is determined to find and showcase examples of the wonderful warm spirit of the Congolese people, their ingenuity, courage and determination.

The VR production will immerse viewers in one of the most important ecosystems on the planet, the dense forests of the Congo Basin, allowing them to see for themselves the natural wonders of this threatened habitat so critical to us all.

COMPLETED PROJECTS

SEA OF ISLANDS

United Nations: Futuring Peace

MFS/ Phoria engaged with the United Nations, Department of Political and Peacebuilding for the production of a short VR Film titled SEA OF ISLANDS, filmed in the South Pacific.  

This is the first of a series of XR projects MFS will co-produce to facilitate UN goals towards peace and community growth. 


‘Sea of Islands’ is a cinematic virtual reality experience that teleports viewers to the South Pacific Islands to meet and hear the stories of the communities already facing life-altering, and life-threatening disruptions from climate change and sea-level rise. By combining the use of powerful and refined immersive cinema techniques and technology with the community and first nation stories from the South Pacific islands, viewers will be able to stand eye to eye with locals, walk together in their villages, fish together in their sea.

Policymakers and the public alike will come face-to-face with the realities of rapid anthropogenic climate change, seen from the islanders' perspectives, the devastating effects this is having on their security for life. Finally, we learn about community and natural resiliency, from an indigenous perspective, and how we can plan and act today to ensure equitable solutions are implemented for Pacific Islanders and ultimately, the rest of the world, to thrive.

Immersive experiences like this, through VR, enable deeper learning and comprehensions of these complex subjects and support impactful place-based storytelling, and cultural and ecological knowledge held by local communities. This VR experience is a portal for the world to engage meaningfully in the fight to return to a more equitable and custodial relationship with our planet and to support those most directly affected by the consequences of our changing climate.