![]() WEISS: You’ve said before that you think “science is storytelling.” In a conversation with Interview after her initial VR project, “A Fistful of Stars” (which places you up near the Hubble Telescope), Haley Weiss asked McNitt about the relationship between science and storytelling. ![]() It’s a stroke of genius to have Patti Smith’s soft yet gravelly voice narrate “Pale Blue Dot.” And to bring in Millie Bobby Brown as the voice in “Chorus of the Cosmos.” Science and Storytelling A scene from “SPHERES” Songs from SpaceTime.” She also has a special talent in bringing people together from diverse disciplines including science and music. McNitt has a number of shorts and documentary films in her credits but has become a storyteller of our cosmos with the SPHERES VR experience. The film director Darren Aronofsky (he did “ Requiem for a Dream” and “ Mother!“) was the executive producer, and the VR experience was written and directed by Eliza McNitt. Spheres’ other chapters are Chorus of the Cosmos, narrated (well, really whispered) by Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Things, and Pale Blue Dot, narrated (you guessed it: whispered) by punk-rock icon and best-selling author Patti Smith. If you don’t regularly spend your time pondering the mysteries of the universe, prepare to come out of your headset wondering what the heck you just saw. One chapter, titled “Spheres: Songs of Spacetime,” has actress Jessica Chastain narrating (actually, whispering) your trip inside a black hole. The experience takes viewers on atmospheric tours around the cosmos. The series is a three-part experience covering black holes, the sounds of the cosmos, and our own pale-blue-dot of a planet. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. Sometimes those stories are based on hard evidence other times, on our imagination. But it’s also significant as the kind of experience that could get younger students interested in STEM and related fields.Įvery discipline incorporates stories – in this case, compelling stories of the mysteries of the universe. SPHERES is a powerful example of storytelling in VR, and one of our favorite experiences. We got the answer today with its public release on the Oculus Rift HMD for $9.99. ![]() That distribution agreement had us all guessing when and where it would show up. The SPHERES VR experience made news in the spring when it scored the million-dollar-plus deal at the Sundance Film Festival. ![]()
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