R + Positive Change – Transitions Film Festival

Join Transitions Film Festival and Real World VR for a special panel, Q&A, five VR film showcase, room scale VR and beta launch. We will discuss topics ranging from preserving indigenous languages, future technologies, disruption, poverty, rising sea levels and our oceans, conservation, rainforests and more.

Real World VR is one of Melbourne's flagship XR-VR/AR/MR events for virtual, augmented and mixed reality. Join us in discussions to explore how new forms of media can be a force for good.

Panelists:
- Thomas Kinsman - Australian Conservation Foundation "Daintree: A Nature Legacy"
- Helen Nias - "Save Sydney"
- Joel De Ross - Rock Against Poverty/Metavents
- Moderator - Leah Bunny

VR Film Showcase + Experience
- Daintree: A Nature Legacy - Australian Conservation Foundation
- A Thin Black Line - VRTOV
- Uku360 - Cassie De Colling
- Save Sydney (HTC Vive Room Scale Experience) - Helen NIas & Kelsey Shanahan
- Metavents (Beta launch) - Rock Against Poverty

Bios:

Thomas Kinsman
Thomas is a multimedia designer working on changing the environmental and political landscapes as well as creating impact awareness of conservation for the Australian Conservation Foundation. His latest immersive experience ‘Daintree: A Nature Legacy’ was created for a campaign towards stronger nature laws in Australia.

Helen Nias
Helen Nias is a digital communications and marketing professional, producer of short films & designer of virtual reality room scale experiences. Her motivation is to try and understand more about the world we live in and the minds we inhabit.

Joel De Ross
Joel currently leads the technology strategy for Vihara Foundation and Rock Against Poverty, a charity event initiative comprising of 50 charity events in 25 countries, with a target to raise $1 billion annually for disaster mitigation and poverty alleviation projects.

VR Film Showcase

Daintree: A Nature Legacy - Australian Conservation Foundation
Take an intimate journey through the breathtaking landscapes of the Daintree while listening to the story of the forest’s indisputable importance to Australia and the world, as the oldest surviving tropical rainforest on earth. Narrated by scientist, politician and environmental campaigner, Mike Berwick, this visually stunning and inspiring experience recounts one of the greatest ecological battles ever fought in Australia’s history when the Daintree came disastrously close to destruction. This immersive and emotional story highlights the need for a new generation of national laws. Because we need laws that protect life, not allow it to be destroyed.

A Thin Black Line - VRTOV
An animated documentary in interactive real-time Virtual Reality, A Thin Black Line invites the audience to step into a pivotal event in the history of one family, and a nation, as seen by a young child. Directed by Atom award-winner Douglas Watkin, with art by acclaimed Aboriginal artist Vernon Ah Kee and produced by award-winning VR studio VRTOV, A Thin Black Line tells the story of a family’s struggle to stay together in the face of war.

Uku360 - Cassie De Colling
Immerse yourself in this extraordinary adventure and share a new perspective of the underwater world. Uku means to dive. Uku360º is a series of 360VR experiences that explores our intrinsic human relationship to the ocean and it’s inhabitants.

Save Sydney (Room Scale Experience - Helen Nias & Kelsey Shanahan
One of the problems with getting people to care about climate change is that we can't immediately see the negative effects of our lifestyle choices. Save Sydney is an interactive room-scale VR game, which simplifies the effects of climate change and sea level rise in order to show that our choices do make a difference to the future of the planet.

Metavents Beta Showcase - Metavents