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About transmedia and other pretty cool stuff

IDFA Doclab: From naked artist to naked truth

IDFA is back in town. The International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam hosts their new media program IDFA Doclab for the 10th time. At the Doclab expo it’s all about undefined non-fiction storytelling. You can experience 30 differing, interactive documentaries for free at the expo at the Brakke Grond. I have been wandering there for quite some…

Virtual Reality at Dutch supermarket

Dutch supermarket Albert Heijn has a new loyalty program. Customers can collect dinosaur stickers and bring them to live with the matching VR-goggles. The glasses ‘from the future’ enable you to look around in the past. I’m positive that this is the moment the crowd is going to discover the awesomeness of virtual reality. Thank…

Why storytelling and VR are a great match

As technology is evolving, so is the way we tell stories. Virtual Reality is becoming more and more accessible and storytellers are experimenting with it. Storytelling and VR might be the perfect match. Still, some people in the industry find it hard to believe that watching films on the Oculus Rift is going to be…

Falling in love and dying at IDFA Doclab 2015

For 10 days Amsterdam is all about the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). I visited the IDFA DocLab 2015 Expo: Seamless Reality. The mission of IDFA DocLab is to “showcase interactive documentaries and other new digital artforms that succesfully push the boundaries of documentary storytelling in the age of the interface.” Sounds interesting, right? You…