HBO Max Announces New Documentary All About VRChat
A feature-length documentary shot entirely in virtual reality will premiere on HBO Max later this month which follows the lives of individuals in popular social VR platform VRChat.
We Met In Virtual Reality was shot during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and follows the lives of five people in virtual reality. At no point do we discover the real-world identities of these individuals, and the 90-minute film was shot entirely inside the world of VR.
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"Through observational scenes captured in real-time, in true documentary style, the film reveals the growing power and intimacy of several relationships formed in the virtual world, many of which began during the Covid-19 lockdown, while so many in the physical world were facing intense isolation," the film's description reads on its official HBO page.
We Met In Virtual Reality was made by Joe Hunting, a UK filmmaker who specialises in directing documentaries inside VRChat. Hunting launched an Indiegogo campaign in order to pay for music licensing and to afford submission fees to film festivals. During the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Hunting created an 11-episode series titled Virtually Speaking, for on demand streamer Discover.film. His latest work premiered at Sundance this year and has been snapped up by HBO.
The feature-length doc follows Jenny, an American Sign Language (ASL) teacher who is building a community for deaf and hard of hearing VRChat users; two long-distance couples using VR to grow their relationship as they prepare to meet physically; and another couple who are part of an exotic VR dance community, which is where they first met.
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