Case study
Free UR Head
VR Interaction Design / Key Collaborator
Wearing VR headsets, participants follow visual and sound cues to move together in a live, unrehearsed choreography guided by a performer.
Festivals, Tours & Awards
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Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN)
Beyond Reality — New Media Selection
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We TAIWAN, Osaka
Live XR Performance — Japan Premiere
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Festival der Zukunft, Munich
MUNICH Beyond — German Premiere
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World Stage Design, Sharjah
Professional Performance Design — Shortlist (Tung-Yen Chou)
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81st Venice International Film Festival
Venice Immersive — In Competition
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Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)
Highlights — Swiss Premiere
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Venice Gap-Financing Market
Immersive Projects — Selected
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Kaohsiung Film Festival
XR Spotlight — World Premiere
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The Challenge
Enable people encountering the work for the first time to become a collective performance through head movements, without rehearsal.
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My Contribution
- I contributed primarily to VR interaction design, collaborating with Ankh Interaction Design, CtrlS and Very Theatre on the performance experience.
- Ankh Interaction Design and CtrlS handled VR interaction design and 3D art. HUANG Yu-Jie handled VR programming, while Fugu Fish Creations handled experience system design and technical production.
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System & Decisions
- Guide head movements through audiovisual cues in the headset so participants form a shared rhythm.
- Use a live performer to connect the headset participants with the audience watching around them.
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Result
- World premiere
- World premiere at the 2023 Kaohsiung Film Festival.
- International tour
- The 2024 international version entered the Venice Immersive competition and had its Swiss premiere at GIFF.
- Festival selection
- Selected for BIFAN Beyond Reality in 2026.
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Credits
Full team for the 2025 We TAIWAN presentation, with the GIFF 2024 key collaborators and original 2023 production credits identified separately.
- Presented and produced by
- Very Theatre
- Director / concept
- CHOU Tung-Yen
- Performer / choreographer
- HUNG Yi-Po
- VR programming
- HUANG Yu-Jie
- VR experience system design and technical team
- Fugu Fish Creations
- VR interaction design and 3D art team
- Ankh Interaction Design Ltd. / CtrlS Ltd.
- Music and sound design
- LIAO Hai-Ting (NTUA Center for Sound Arts and Acoustics Research, Taiwan)
- Featured musician
- Abao Aljenljeng
- Lead vocals — Enelja Laleselan
- Kivi
- Recording and mixing — Enelja Laleselan
- LIU Shih-Wei
- Stage management
- TSAI Chuan-Ren
- Lighting design
- WU Hsia-Ning
- Master electrician
- LIU Po-Han
- Technical direction
- YU Ray-Pei
- Projection design and execution
- SUN Min
- Assistant projection design
- HSU Hui-Chueh
- Sound engineering
- CHEN Hao-Jun
- Costume design
- Zeze CHEN
- Technician and Japanese interpretation
- YANG Wei-Chung
- Theatre producer
- Neo WU
- Co-producer
- Sebox HONG
- Company manager
- CHEN Yi-Zhen
- Administrative assistance
- CHIANG Kai-Fang
- Graphic design
- FANG Wei-Hung
- Documentation
- Very Mainstream Studio
- Cinematography
- NIE Yi-Nuo
- Japanese supervision
- Anita SUNG
- Official partner
- Kaohsiung Film Archive
- Development support
- TAICCA — 2022 Future Content Grant / Ministry of Culture — TAIWAN CONTENT PLAN XR Immersive Content Project
- Key collaborators — GIFF 2024
- Jacki (Chun-Ju) Chen / Chuan-Ren Tsai
- Production and presentation — 2023
- Very Theatre / Very Mainstream Studio