Filmmaker Victoria Bousis (pictured below) has partnered with Unique Network to enhance the immersive film experience of her award-winning film “Stay Alive, My Son.”

Inspired by true events and based on the memoirs of Pin Yathay, “Tu Vivra, Mon Fils” (“Stay Alive, My Son”), Bousis says she wanted to “leverage technology to break the rules of traditional storytelling and educating audiences about Cambodia’s history.”

The film, which will screen at Siggraph in August and is currently on the festival circuit, uses augmented reality and a virtual world that audiences experience through a VR headset.

Bousis explains the way audiences consume content has changed. With the launch of Apple’s Vision Pro which uses eye movements and hand movements for navigation — with no external controllers — and also employs voice input, Bousis says it’s a way to bring powerful and immersive stories back to audiences and into homes.

Bousis added that "This groundbreaking headset epitomizes the very purpose of storytelling: to ignite our senses, awaken our emotions, and re-engage us beyond story watching, into story living."

“Immersive storytelling invokes deeper physiological and neurological impact because it heightens your senses and provokes complex emotions of joy, grief, guilt and empowerment to inspire change, less able via traditional mediums. For more, read the full report by Variety.

With a long lead-time to market, Apple is giving artist like Bousis time to develop projects designed to take advantage of the advanced Apple Vision Pro headset features.

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