VENUE: Wonderville, 57-60 Haymarket, St. James's, London

For the ninth year, Raindance is celebrating independent XR talent with the festival’s immersive programme. From storytelling in VRChat to filmmaking and game development for the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3, this year's Summit features talks and panel discussions by leading XR creators, filmmakers and game developers from the UK and around the world.

SCHEDULE

9:30: Registrations Open
9:45: Doors Open

10:00: START

2024 RAINDANCE IMMERSIVE OPENING KEYNOTE

10:00: Opening keynote by Raindance Immersive Curators

THE NEXT FRONTIER IN STORYTELLING

Screenings of short films made in VRChat with Curator, Joe Hunting:

10:40: A Conversation Between Two People That Don't Matter
10:50: Where Withered Flowers Grow
11:20: Monotone
11:30: Evergarden: Behind the Magic

Screenings of music videos made in VRChat with Curator, Joe Hunting:

12:00: National Anthem, Carpe Diem, I Still Love You, Like Crazy
12:20: Interviews with VRChat Filmmakers and Music Video Creators

13:00: LUNCH & NETWORKING BREAK

CRAFTING FEMALE NARRATIVES IN VR

14:00: Crafting Female Narratives - a Panel with the Creators of Narratives in competition Heartbeat (Dee Harvey and Johanna Courtney), The Elephant I Found Under My Skin (Shaool Levy), Girl, Lamp, Radio (Minhyuk Che); Fly To You (Youngyun Song); moderated by Curator, Joanna Leigh

THE NEXT FRONTIER IN SPATIAL COMPUTING

15:00: Dive into Parkour: Directing an Apple Original Immersive Film for Apple Vision Pro, a talk by Director, Charlotte Mikkelborg

15:30: BREAK

15:45: Remixing Reality: Developing Spatial Games for Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 - a Panel with the Developers of Wisp World, Jasper Stevens and Laser Dance, Thomas Van Bouwel; moderated by Curator Mária Rakušanová

17:00 CLOSING WORDS

XR SHOWCASE

During the Summit we will run an XR showcase of the four nominated narratives and two nominated spatial games at the Mezzanine, with sign up's on the day on first come, firt served basis.

10:00-13:00 - The Elephant I Found Under My Skin, Fly To You , Heartbeat

13:00-15:00 - Girl, Lamp, Radio

15:00-17:00 - Laser Dance

16:00-16:15 - Wisp World demo on stage during the spatial gaming panel

Raindance Immersive Summit at Wonderville, London