Actors sheltering at home perform in live VR experiences, making case for new theater form

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Actors sheltering at home perform in live VR experiences, making case for new theater form
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Los Angeles studio Tender Claws brings live theater to virtual reality with actors at home during coronavirus. It's a new form of theater.

Better VR headsets and experiences that respond to you are reasons to isolate inside virtual reality when COVID-19 is the reality outside your door.being my kitchen — it felt pretty dang good. Everyone snapped in celebration. Moments later I removed the virtual reality headset, but not simply because work beckoned. No, this odd yet innocent moment in an absurdist work of tech-focused improvisational theater had not just put a smile on my face, it brought me to tears.

But I believe “The Under Presents” is lovely, a sprawling universe that conjures the intimacy of the best of immersive theater and puts the emphasis on. When it was released for the Oculus Quest last November, “The Under Presents” felt like an ambitious and borderline demented — in the best way possible, of course — experiment. It melded a three-act, time-twisting single-player narrative with a multiplayer hub filled with live actors and lots of silly player improvisation and abstract puzzles.

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