It's a whole hour focusing on the Meta Quest, from the recent showcase to what's worth playing right now. Kevin Gossett plays host as Kathryn Yu and Patrick McLean blast through:

Meta Quest Gaming Showcase

• Moss: Book II by Polyarc
• Ghostbusters VR by nDreams + Sony Pictures Virtual Reality
• Among Us VR - Innersloth, Schell Games, and Robot Teddy
• Red Matter 2 by Vertical Robot

A quick detour to talk about another upcoming game: The Last Clockwinder

Then it's on to what they've been playing:

• Area Man Lives by Numinous Games (also on Viveport & Steam)
• Lost Recipes by Schell Games (Quest exclusive)
• Unbinary by Ludact (also on Viveport & Steam)

Want more Quest Games to check out? Explore NoPro's MUST PLAY Guide to the Quest.

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Artist Glenn Kaino joins us to talk about his latest installation, 'A Forest For The Trees,' a stunning work in Los Angeles presented by The Atlantic and Superblue. This one's a can't-miss experience. [7:15]

We also talk with Erin Brindley and Terry Podgorski, co-executive artistic directors of Seattle's best kept secret Cafe Nordo, which returns to live work with 'Down The Rabbit Hole.' [30:20]

Plus: the Pick of the Week [27:20] and Headlines.

SHOW NOTES

• A Forest For The Trees
• Cafe Nordo
• The Los Angeles Immersive Invitational
• Meow Wolf in Texas
• Galactic Starcruiser Booked Out
• Facebook Shows Off Mixed Reality
• Everything Immersive: Trailheads
• Everything Immersive: Immersive Getaways

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NoPro London Curator Shelley Snyder is joined in person by New England Correspondent Leah Davis to trade notes on their experiences at Punchdrunk's latest production The Burnt City. Watch out for spoilers, as Shelley and Leah go through their multiple runs of the show and share some of the secrets they've uncovered in this highly anticipated, hugely ambitious work from the creators of Sleep No More.

For a spoiler-free review, check out Shelley's write-up at the site.

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Cesar Hawas, executive producer of Particle Ink: Speed of Dark, an incredible new show that seamlessly blends projection-mapped characters with live performers to create an immersive work like no other. It's playing now in Las Vegas and you really should go!

Plus: Landon Zakheim of the Overlook Film Festival drops in to talk about this year's immersive offerings at the New Orleans celebration of all things horror this June.

Show Notes

Particle Ink: Speed of Dark

Overlook Film Festival

The Los Angeles Immersive Invitational

The Denver Immersive Gathering

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This week, Graham Wetterhahn of After Hours Theatre Company joins host Noah Nelson to talk about the upcoming Los Angeles Immersive Invitational, a 48-hour pop-up festival that challenges immersive creators from across LA to make new work out of thin air and share it with the public just two nights later. After a successful 2019 event, this year's edition will be held at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. Listen to learn which companies and artists are joining the weekend's festivities.

Audience tickets for the Invitational go on sale this coming Monday.

Headlines

• VR Researchers Simulate Kissing (Gizmodo)
• Japanese Immersive Art Collective Sues California Company for Copyright Infringement (ARTNews)
• Tribeca Immersive Lineup

Show Notes

WOW Festival Diary

Review Crew Podcast: WOW Festival

Review Rundown

Call Sheet

Games For Change Festival Registration Opens

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter 

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson  

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This week Kevin Gossett hosts as Laura Hess and Noah Nelson report back from the 2022 Without Walls Festival in San Diego. The now annual festival, produced by La Jolla Playhouse, returned to Arts District Liberty Station with a collection of plays, performances, and public art pieces. The Crew tackles just a slice of this jam-packed event.

• Monuments [6:51]
• TransMythical [11:42]
• Ants [14:06]
• Somnium [17:35]
• Black Séance [28:06]
• A Thousand Ways Part Three [44:07]
• 40 Watts From Nowhere [58:36]

Show Notes

• WOW 2022 Festival Diary
• Book Club: The Night Circus (May 17th @5pm PDT)

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This week we talk with Owen Kingston and Chris Styles of Parabolic Theatre in London about their current season of immersive works and the company's new home the CRYPT in the East End, which they've shared with a few productions rehomed from the canceled Vault festival.

Show Notes

• Parabolic Theatre
• The Los Angeles Immersive Invitational
• Review Crew on Big Beautiful BRANDS: Doctor Who, Bridgerton & More

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter 

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson  

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This week Kevin Gossett hosts a conversation all about the kinds of big branded experiences that are many people’s first foray into immersive.

Shelley Snyder joins from London to talk Doctor Who: Time Fracture [spoiler warning at 12:00] while LA correspondent Briana Roecks and Arts Editor Laura Hess detail their time at Netflix’s Bridgerton ball in LA (which has popped up in Chicago and D.C., but is different from the Secret Cinema one in London. Got it?) [13:45]

Plus there’s talk about I Know What You Did Last Summer, which JFI put together for Amazon. [37:40] Plus you know we had to mention Arcane. (Another Netflix show. Huh, maybe they should do more of these. Ted. Call me. I have the solution to your stock problems.) 

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It's a mega-episode this week starting with a panel of rebels & rogues who offer their travel tips for journeys on Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Journalists Brooke McDonald & Todd Martens and experience designer Nick Tierce, all of whom were amongst the first travelers on board the Halcyon, join us for a spoiler-free discussion that aims to help those who are traveling on board the ship make the most of their experience… with just a little dash of design theory sprinkled in for good measure. [7:50]

Plus we talk with performer/creator Stepy Kamei about her currently running one-on-one phone experience 'We Should Meet In Air', which brings audience members into contact with Sylvia Plath in the last year of her life. (CW: mention of suicide, discussion of mental health). [51:00]

All that and we announce the return of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational and how YOU can be art of it [open segment], plus the Pick of the Week [47:00], and Headlines [5:40]!

Show Notes

• Brooke's Review of Starcruiser (Simplemost)
• Todd's Review of Starcruiser (LA Times)
• NoPro Review Rundown (f. 'We Should Meet In Air')
• Los Angeles Immersive Invitational
• Review Crew: Pick Up The Phone, Willya?

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter 

Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No Proscenium

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson  

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This week Patrick McLean takes on the host duties and chats with Leah Davis and Laura Hess about the often overlooked genre of telephone-based immersive shows.

The Crew dives into what makes the format tick, starting with a discussion of Leah's time with Sylvia Plath (in a sense) as part of 'We Should Meet In Air,' and carrying on with talk of Capital W's 'A Call From The Resistance,' the work of Candle House Collective, and the multiple manifestations of 'The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries.'

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