Tribeca Virtual Arcade at Westfield
Open to the Public: 12:00 – 8:00 pm
November 4-6, 11-13, 18-20
Experience Virtual Reality from the world’s leading creators and artists at the Tribeca Virtual Arcade at Westfield. Open daily during the first three weekends of November, the Tribeca Virtual Arcade features pop-up VR installations that allow audiences to discover new worlds at the iconic Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center.
Based on the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Arcade, the Tribeca Virtual Arcade at Westfield is open to the public and brings the latest in technology to Westfield World Trade Center.
Invasion!
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 12-8PM
NOVEMBER 4-6, 11-13, 18-20
Created by Baobab Studios: From Eric Darnell (Antz, Madagascar) this interactive animated VR experience narrated by Ethan Hawke follows menacing aliens with vastly superior technology who come to claim the Earth and destroy anyone in their way. Despite incredible odds, Earth’s citizens rise up and defeat the evil aliens. Surprisingly, these Earthly citizens are not humans but a pair of the cutest, meekest and cuddliest creatures of our planet—two fluffy white bunnies.
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Invisible
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 12-8PM
NOVEMBER 4-6, 11-13, 18-20
Episode 1, created by Doug Liman, 30 Ninjas, Jaunt VR, Samsung VR, and Condé Nast Entertainment: Visionary director Doug Liman’s (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) Invisible is a virtual reality supernatural drama about an old New York family, the Ashlands, whose tentacles reach into the largest corporations and governments in the world. Although they control a large portion of the world’s economy, they exist in relative ambiguity. With a unique genetic ability, they move unseen and unknown…until now.
KÀ The Battle Within
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 12-8PM
NOVEMBER 4-6, 11-13, 18-20
Created by François Blouin, Félix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël: Cirque du Soleil’s first-ever linear narrative production, KÀ The Battle Within, is a gravity-defying VR saga of heroism and martial arts. Two rival clans from an ancient and mythical world confront one another in a furious clash of vertiginous acrobatics and breathtaking combat. The very fabric of reality is transcended, as the physical world is broken into horizontal and vertical choreographies. KÀ The Battle Within pushes the narrative and experiential boundaries of the universe of KÀ, the colossal theatrical production by Cirque du Soleil, to epic new heights.
OneRepublic ‘Kids’
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 12-8PM
NOVEMBER 4-6, 11-13, 18-20
Created by Hal Kirkland and Moving Picture Company along with Here Be Dragons: KIDS is a fully immersive virtual reality experience and the newest single off of multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated OneRepublic’s new album Oh My My. It follows two teenagers, a boy and girl, who live across the street from one another in the city and witness to each other’s lives through their windows. It was captured in a single take with the Nokia OZO.
