A showcase of digital interactive storytelling, featuring top international and local VR, AR installations & digital stories.
Storytelling is central to everything we do. Humans have been telling stories around campfires and kitchen tables from time immemorial. Our kaupapa is to celebrate, support and showcase documentary which includes bringing new immersive worlds to New Zealand audiences for them to participate in and experience.
XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), Interactive and Immersive storytelling. In a way, it encompasses anything beyond the traditional on-screen format.
The XR exhibition is a family-friendly and free event, and this year, it will be open to the public at the following dates & venues:
Auckland / 11 May-4 June
Auckland Central Library, 44/46 Lorne Street, kindly supported by Auckland Council’s City Centre Targeted Rate and Heart of the City.
Wellington / 12-18 June
Doc Edge XR Pop Up Space, 113 Taranaki Street, kindly supported by Urban Dream Brokerage
Key Events & Schedule
You can view or download the entire Auckland XR events between 11 May to 4 June with the following key events not to be missed:
Exhibition Launch of NZ XR
World Premiere/
Immersive Experience
Experience four thrilling world premieres: Evoke, The Luminous, Amorphous Volumes, and About Sound. Also featuring TOMO VR
1 June at 5pm, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** XR Untold Stories Special Event
a special event featuring Missing 10 Hours
XR for Change: Untold Stories, an immersive event that showcases a collection of transformative XR experiences
2 June at 5.30pm, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Projects in Exhibition
Digital Storytelling
This category features a selection of XR works that use digital media to tell stories and convey powerful messages. These innovative and engaging experiences are sure to captivate audiences and push the boundaries of traditional storytelling.
Immersive Experiences
This category a range of cutting-edge XR works that transport audiences to new and exciting worlds. From virtual reality to interactive installations, these immersive experiences provide a sense of presence and engagement that is truly awe-inspiring.
About Sound
World Premiere/
Immersive Experience
A VR experience that changes perception by engaging them with everyday New Zealanders and their responses to various aural wonders in a restful, meditative environment
1-4 June, Auckland
12-18 June, Wellington
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Alex Honnold Soloist
Digital Storytelling
Immerse in Honnold's world, one of world's most famous free-climbers, carrying out a dangerous mission and bringing viewers on an exhilarating experience through the European Alps.
1-4 June, Auckland
12-18 June, Wellington
** General Admission **
Amorphous Volumes
World Premiere/
Immersive Experience
A playful, easy watching for first time VR with a unique journey with its visual aesthetics and soundscape, allows audience to experience the colourful organic environment.
1-4 Jun, Auckland
12-18 Jun, Wellington
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Blood Relations
Digital Storytelling
New discoveries about personal stories from a scrapyard in Vancouver to the Orthodox Jewish community of Bnei Brak and back to a decaying farm in rural Manitoba.
25-28 May, Auckland
13-18 Jun, Wellington
** General Admission **
Container
Immersive Experience
A mesmerising journey of the 221 enslaved men and women of slavery who drowned in shackles when a Portuguese slave ship sank in 1794 in Clifton Beach, Cape Town.
25-28 May, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Diagnosia
Immersive Experience
A captivating experience to think about the issue of internet addiction, through mesmerising stories in the military-operated Internet addiction camp in Beijing in 2007.
2-4 June, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Evoke
Immersive Experience /
World Premiere
World Premiere
A poetic, embodied, transcendental journey by stepping into a vast desert landscape and being met with fire, light and universe goddesses.
1-4 June, Auckland
12-18 June, Wellington
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged **
Galup
Digital Storytelling
In raising awareness of the under-discussed aspect of Aboriginal history, Australia's racist past, this is a short story to bring attention to what really happened at Galup Lake in moving detail.
25-28 May, Auckland
13-18 June, Wellington
** General Admission **
Kindred
Digital Storytelling
This is a story on flaws embedded into the adoption system in a non-judgmental manner and pushes us to take a more open-minded view of those who wish to serve as single parents.
25-28 May, Auckland
13-18 June, Wellington
** General Admission **
Luminous
Immersive Experience
An interactive VR experience that gives you a immersive connection with perspectives from micro scale to macro scale.
1-4 June, Auckland
12-18 June, Wellington
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Missing 10 Hours
Immersive Experience
Bystander effect, a social psychological theory of a series of events for a vulnerable young woman to become a date rape victim.
2-4 June, Auckland
16-18 June, Wellington
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged **
Missing Pictures
Immersive Experience
Showcases several notable filmmakers abstract versions of technically innovative dream projects that never came to fruition as part of this VR experience.
25-28 May, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Munich 72
Immersive Experience
This walk-through documentary uses VR chat to trace what happened during the 1972 Munich Massacre in riveting detail.
2-4 June, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Myriad
Immersive Experience
A passionate call to arms on behalf of the animal rights movement and makes a strong emotional appeal in favour of environmentalism.
25-28 May, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** No Place But Here
Digital Storytelling
A fiery agitprop hopes to rehabilitate the image of the South African Reclaim the City movement and spread awareness on the causes of the Woodstock building occupation.
2-4 June, Auckland
** General Admission **
Nobody's Listening
Immersive Experience
A collaboration in ground-breaking educational initiative that commemorates the 2014 Yazidi genocide by ISIS.
25-28 May, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged ** Sorella's Story
Digital Storytelling
Accompany Sorella, a 10-year-old girl and some 4,000 Latvian Jewish women in a 360 snowy landscape as they embark on their last journey on a beach in Latvia during Holocaust
2-4 June, Auckland
**General Admission** Square the CIRCLe
Digital Storytelling
A delightful palette cleanser that poses several thought provoking questions about existential terror.
25-28 May, Auckland
13-18 June, Auckland
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged **
The jungle people
Digital Storytelling
A vital, politically charged examination of the Anti-British National Liberation War and the impact that it had on the family of a Communist guerrilla fighter.
25-28 May, Auckland
13-18 June, Wellington
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged **
This is not a ceremony
Digital Storytelling
In this astonishing cinematic VR experience, the oral tradition popularised by Canada's First Nations community gives voice to the concerns of a persecuted minority.
2-4 June, Auckland
**General Admission**
Tomo VR
Premiere/ Digital Storytelling
In the virtual world, architecture TOMO interprets the proverbial heart of three wahine travelling through Te Ao Kikokiko (the land of the living).
1-4 June, Auckland
12-18 June, Wellington
** Limited capacity. Session booking encouraged **
