This week:

Chip Giller and Amy Seidenwurm of AGOG: The Immersive Media Institute a new organization whose mission is to helping creators and nonprofit leaders harness the power of extended reality (XR) to imagine a better future for all.

Then we pivot from XR to IRL as Adipat Virdi, the creator of I AM OTHER — which is headed to the Edinburgh Fringe this August and has a two night stand in Canterbury this month — June 20th & 21st at the Gulbenkian Arts Center — to talk about the piece: An immersive family drama, about an older relative’s act of aggression towards a biracial child, that actively investigates white privilege, judgement, identity and bias.

• AGOG: The Immersive Media Institute
• Award Winning ‘Body of Mine’ Drops On Meta VR Platforms
• I AM OTHER
• I AM OTHER Canterbury
• I AM OTHER Edinburgh

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Life & Trust – the upcoming show from Emursive, the NYC presenters of Sleep No More & proprietors of the McKittrick Hotel – is the subject of much rumor & speculation, something our Review Crew is not immune to!

Join NoPro's NYC curator Allie Marotta, East Coast Editor at Large Blake Weil, NYC correspondents Nicholas Fortugno and Penelope Ray along with host Noah Nelson as they dig into what's known, what's supposed, and what just might be about the highly anticipated show that opens later this month.

Then stick around as Larry Myers joins us to talk about his Hollywood Fringe show Did I Just Join A Cult? about his time with The Tension Experience.

SHOW NOTES

• Life & Trust
• Did I Just Join A Cult?
• Hollywood Fringe

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A double header!

First: What If...? — An Immersive Story Design Director Ian Bowie of ILM Immersive and Director & Executive Producer Dave Bushore of Marvel Studios join us to talk about the new release for the Apple Vision Pro.

Then: the first of our Hollywood Fringe 2024 shorts as Jacob Zorehkey & Ashley Busenlener of LAST CALL THEATRE pop in to tell us about Last Call’s upcoming Hollywood Fringe show REFORGED.

• What If...? — An Immersive Story
• ILM Immersive
• Marvel Studios
• Last Call Theatre's REFORGED
• Last Call Theatre
• Hollywood Fringe

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This week we’re joined by Cesar Hawas, producer of Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms, the spectacular creation of the Light Poets that has moved into the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and is wowing audiences in this follow up run to Particle Ink’s fabled run in Vegas’ Arts District. 

SHOW NOTES

• Particle Ink
• Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms
• The NoPro Review of the Original Run
• Review Rundown with the Shattered Prism review
• Reality Escape Pod: Noah Nelson
• RECON '24
• Immersive Experience Institute Newsletter

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This week we are joined by the dynamic Achinta S. McDaniel, Founding Artistic Director of Blue13 Dance Company whose all new work Soliloquy: Immersive Experience comes to LA's Heritage Square Museum May 31 - June 2. This marks Blue13's return to Heritage Square after the triumphant Shaadi in 2021, a highlight of that year.

We get into the themes of the new show, how working in immersive & site-specific compares to other mediums for dance, and if her students at the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC see the immersive world as part of their futures.

Soliloquy: Immersive Experience

Blue 13 Dance Company

Broken Bone Bathtub: The Documentary & LA Immersive Meetup

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The Next Stage Immersive Summit 2025

The Immersive Experience Institute Newsletter

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Michael Epstein, founder of Walking Cinema, joins us to talk about The Fillmore Eclipse.

While Walking Cinema is well known for their intricate audio based walking history experiences, this is their first fully staged immersive performance based experience… one that like all of their work taps into the local history of the setting.

The Fillmore Eclipse

Walking Cinema

Life & Trust

Hollywood Fringe

Particle Ink

Broken Bone Bathtub: The Documentary & LA Immersive Meetup

NoPro Patreon Backer Discount

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This week on the show Rory Mitchell of The Mercantile is here to talk with us about his new Augmented Reality narrative experience The Tent, which made a splash at SXSW this year and is now on the festival circuit.

The Tent

The Mercantile

Broken Bone Bathtub Documentary/LA Meetup

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Meow Wolf supercharged the way we experience art. Is L.A. ready for the wild ride? (LA Times)

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David Rosenberg & Glen Neath, Artistic Directors of DARKFIELD return to the podcast to talk about their latest work, the interactive audio experience ARCADE. A twist on the company's signature immersive audio storytelling formula, ARCADE features a branching narrative as you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war.

• ARCADE
• DARKFIELD
• The Los Angeles Immersive Invitational
• World Premiere Screening in LA: The Broken Bone Bathtub Documentary

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This week on the show NoPro’s Chicago curator Patrick McLean hops into the host chair for a conversation with Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Co-Executive Director of Chicago’s own Albany Park Theater Project and Jennine Willett, co-artistic director of the NYC based Third Rail Projects about the two company’s ongoing collaboration over the years and its current incarnation — the immersive theatre experience Port of Entry.

• Albany Park Theater Project
• Third Rail Projects
• Port of Entry
• The Los Angeles Immersive Invitational

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We're joined this week by Robert Farid Karimi – whose work of late has included a series of interactive analog immersive game experiences involving topics such as community-police relations and the illegal detention of Central American immigrant youth – and who is the co-director of the Public Practice + Generative Play StudioLab and serves as Assistant Professor in the Music, Dance and Theater department at Arizona State University.

It's a fantastic discussion about meaning-making.

• Robert Farid Karimi
• Worlds In Play: The Mint Experience!
• LA Immersive Invitational

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