"Where is a Friend's Home?" from 2020 Unity for Humanity Summit
PARADISE_Poster_sxsw.jpg
PARADISE_VIDEO

*case study* on "Paradise" an AI powered immersive audio app that is meant for couples to explore what keeps them together or fall apart. It world premiered at @sxsw and has toured all over the world including France, New Zealand, and Germany. It is being implemented as a training with a leading Baltimore youth organization and Johns Hopkins University continues to test and refine its use cases in public health. You can find more info at thisisparadise.app and you can DM me if you would like to schedule a time to do it with your partner in the comfort of your own home. It is incredibly immersive and shows the power of sound + storytelling + AI.

PARADISE - Trailer

PARADISE is a two person AI-powered immersive audio experience for intimate partners in their own home. Part interactive game, part theatrical experience, audience members progress through a world of simulated scenarios that explore why we stay together or fall apart.

Zikr: A Sufi Revival (2018), HTC VIVE, social VR documentary, Sundance Film Festival, LA film festival, Amsterdam IDFA
Zikr: A Sufi Revival (2018), HTC VIVE, social VR documentary, Sundance Film Festival, LA film festival, Amsterdam IDFA

Understanding Sufism, by its very nature, is experiential. It is a commonly misunderstood branch of Islam that is often typecast as esoteric, mystical, and far outside of mainstream practices. But in many Muslim countries, Sufism is deeply bound to national heritage and other artistic outlets. Zikr enables four people at a time to experience Sufism much as practitioners do in Tunisia and, together, participate in ecstatic music rituals and encounter new spiritual possibilities.

Trailer | Zikr: A Sufi Revival
The Last Goodbye (2017), room-scale VR + art installation, HTC VIVE, Tribeca Film Festival, 75 Venice film festival
The Last Goodbye (2017), room-scale VR + art installation, HTC VIVE, Tribeca Film Festival, 75 Venice film festival

In July of 2016, Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter toured the Majdanek Concentration Camp in what he vowed would be his final visit. By marrying a stereo video capture of Pinchas within a photoreal roomscale experience, The Last Goodbye reaches profound levels of immersion in service of the first ever VR testimony that will be archived and preserved. The importance of listening to Pinchas’ story is more important now than ever and this is also a beautiful testament to love, compassion and the human spirit.

In The Field With Gabo Arora - Pilot Episode
The Day The World Changed (2018), social VR documentary+ art installation, HTC VIVE, Tribeca Film festival, Sheffield Doc/fest, Cartagena film festival
The Day The World Changed (2018), social VR documentary+ art installation, HTC VIVE, Tribeca Film festival, Sheffield Doc/fest, Cartagena film festival

In partnership with Nobel Media and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, The Day the World Changed brings to viewers the harrowing impressions of the victims and survivors of atomic bombings and nuclear arms testing through first-hand testimonies, data visualizations, and innovative use of 3-D scanning and photogrammetry.

The Day The World Changed - trailer
Gabo Arora | Transport Magazine Interview

LISTEN TO ME PONTIFICATE - closest thing I have to a showreel though this mofo is outdated..cause I am fire.

These Sleepless Nights (2019), mixed reality installation, Magicleap, 76 Venice film festival, FNC montreal
These Sleepless Nights (2019), mixed reality installation, Magicleap, 76 Venice film festival, FNC montreal

“These Sleepless Nights” lets viewers explore a 4-part mini-documentary with Magic Leap AR headsets by walking around a large cube. Each sides of the cubes helps them unlock part of the story, shining a light on the plight of people who have gone through the process of an eviction.

The Last Goodbye - CASE STUDY
These Sleepless Nights - Mixed Reality Documentary - Trailer
These Sleepless Nights - Eviction is Something a Child Would Never Forget
Clouds Over Sidra (2015), UNVR app, 360 video, Sundance Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/fest

The Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan is home to over 80,000 Syrians fleeing war and violence. Half of these are children. Clouds Over Sidra is the story of a 12 year old girl who has lived there since the summer of 2013. The film follows her to school, to her makeshift tent and even to the football pitch.

My Mother's Wing

In Gaza, foundations are built, destroyed, and built again. This VR experience follows a mother attempting to cope with the loss of her two children, victims of a shelling attack on her children's school.

"Where is a Friend's Home?" from 2020 Unity for Humanity Summit
PARADISE_Poster_sxsw.jpg
PARADISE_VIDEO
PARADISE - Trailer
Zikr: A Sufi Revival (2018), HTC VIVE, social VR documentary, Sundance Film Festival, LA film festival, Amsterdam IDFA
Trailer | Zikr: A Sufi Revival
The Last Goodbye (2017), room-scale VR + art installation, HTC VIVE, Tribeca Film Festival, 75 Venice film festival
In The Field With Gabo Arora - Pilot Episode
The Day The World Changed (2018), social VR documentary+ art installation, HTC VIVE, Tribeca Film festival, Sheffield Doc/fest, Cartagena film festival
The Day The World Changed - trailer
Gabo Arora | Transport Magazine Interview
These Sleepless Nights (2019), mixed reality installation, Magicleap, 76 Venice film festival, FNC montreal
The Last Goodbye - CASE STUDY
These Sleepless Nights - Mixed Reality Documentary - Trailer
These Sleepless Nights - Eviction is Something a Child Would Never Forget
Clouds Over Sidra (2015), UNVR app, 360 video, Sundance Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/fest
My Mother's Wing
"Where is a Friend's Home?" from 2020 Unity for Humanity Summit
PARADISE_VIDEO

*case study* on "Paradise" an AI powered immersive audio app that is meant for couples to explore what keeps them together or fall apart. It world premiered at @sxsw and has toured all over the world including France, New Zealand, and Germany. It is being implemented as a training with a leading Baltimore youth organization and Johns Hopkins University continues to test and refine its use cases in public health. You can find more info at thisisparadise.app and you can DM me if you would like to schedule a time to do it with your partner in the comfort of your own home. It is incredibly immersive and shows the power of sound + storytelling + AI.

PARADISE - Trailer

PARADISE is a two person AI-powered immersive audio experience for intimate partners in their own home. Part interactive game, part theatrical experience, audience members progress through a world of simulated scenarios that explore why we stay together or fall apart.

Zikr: A Sufi Revival (2018), HTC VIVE, social VR documentary, Sundance Film Festival, LA film festival, Amsterdam IDFA

Understanding Sufism, by its very nature, is experiential. It is a commonly misunderstood branch of Islam that is often typecast as esoteric, mystical, and far outside of mainstream practices. But in many Muslim countries, Sufism is deeply bound to national heritage and other artistic outlets. Zikr enables four people at a time to experience Sufism much as practitioners do in Tunisia and, together, participate in ecstatic music rituals and encounter new spiritual possibilities.

Trailer | Zikr: A Sufi Revival
The Last Goodbye (2017), room-scale VR + art installation, HTC VIVE, Tribeca Film Festival, 75 Venice film festival

In July of 2016, Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter toured the Majdanek Concentration Camp in what he vowed would be his final visit. By marrying a stereo video capture of Pinchas within a photoreal roomscale experience, The Last Goodbye reaches profound levels of immersion in service of the first ever VR testimony that will be archived and preserved. The importance of listening to Pinchas’ story is more important now than ever and this is also a beautiful testament to love, compassion and the human spirit.

In The Field With Gabo Arora - Pilot Episode
The Day The World Changed (2018), social VR documentary+ art installation, HTC VIVE, Tribeca Film festival, Sheffield Doc/fest, Cartagena film festival

In partnership with Nobel Media and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, The Day the World Changed brings to viewers the harrowing impressions of the victims and survivors of atomic bombings and nuclear arms testing through first-hand testimonies, data visualizations, and innovative use of 3-D scanning and photogrammetry.

The Day The World Changed - trailer
Gabo Arora | Transport Magazine Interview

LISTEN TO ME PONTIFICATE - closest thing I have to a showreel though this mofo is outdated..cause I am fire.

These Sleepless Nights (2019), mixed reality installation, Magicleap, 76 Venice film festival, FNC montreal

“These Sleepless Nights” lets viewers explore a 4-part mini-documentary with Magic Leap AR headsets by walking around a large cube. Each sides of the cubes helps them unlock part of the story, shining a light on the plight of people who have gone through the process of an eviction.

The Last Goodbye - CASE STUDY
These Sleepless Nights - Mixed Reality Documentary - Trailer
These Sleepless Nights - Eviction is Something a Child Would Never Forget
Clouds Over Sidra (2015), UNVR app, 360 video, Sundance Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/fest

The Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan is home to over 80,000 Syrians fleeing war and violence. Half of these are children. Clouds Over Sidra is the story of a 12 year old girl who has lived there since the summer of 2013. The film follows her to school, to her makeshift tent and even to the football pitch.

My Mother's Wing

In Gaza, foundations are built, destroyed, and built again. This VR experience follows a mother attempting to cope with the loss of her two children, victims of a shelling attack on her children's school.

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