#1650: Sneak Peak of Venice Immersive 2025 Selection with Curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac

Voices of VR

I spoke with Venice Immersive curators Liz Rosenthal & Michel Reilhac about sneak peak of their 2025 selection, which is their largest selection yet. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here's an Venice Immersive Program Cheat Sheet by Voices of VR podcast (PDF), which has an overview of the four categories of immersive experiences ordered by longest booking times to shortest (amount of time required for scheduling purposes) as well as the actual runtime, the number of people who can see it per slot, and then the number of people who can see it per day. This should hopefully help for your scheduling process. I typically book experiences to roughly corresponding to hours. The Biennale scheduling website will open up on Thursday, August 21st, and it will not let you double book yourself. So I personally find it easier to book the longer experiences first, and then fill out my schedule with shorter experiences, and then experiences that generally have higher capacity. Note that Ancestors (capacity of 48 people), and L'Ombre (capacity of 50 people), and each of the VRChat sessions only have one booking time per day, and so these are also worth prioritizing if you want to see them and they should have lots of capacity throughout the week. The One the Other Earth may be one of the more logistically difficult experiences to see as you'll need to make a trek up to the main Venice island. I'd recommend trying to keep your schedule clear for at least an hour before and afterwards. Here's a placeholder for the schedule helper that I'll hopefully release soon. Here's a placeholder for my other coverage of Venice Immersive 2025 to be updated after the festival. Here's a list Best of Experiences and Best of Worlds from VRChat that are already available if you'd like to get a head start on this year's program. BEST OF EXPERIENCES The Midnight Walk Ghost Town One True Path, Part 1 Wall Town Wonders D-Day: The Camera Soldier - Apple Vision Pro Submerged - Apple Vision Pro Adventure: Ice Dive - Apple Vision Pro BEST OF WORLDS - VRChat links included vent. by Premium² What is Virtual Art – Volume 1 by Jessien FLASHING WARNING by xlxxl Flat Earth by Niko Lang Neuron by Juice… Powdergame by Pema Malling [NOT REPLAYABLE YET] FZMZ Pointzero by ReeeznD [VR_SMEJ] よるとうげ -Yorutouge- by mikkabouzu / Kikuo [VR_SMEJ] Ritual （v․1․3) by DrMorro The Reality of Hope by Joe Hunting [NOT PUBLISHED YET] -- Mirage by TOKYO WAIYOZ Natura’s Queendom by Anders Fray, Starheart [NOT PUBLISHED YET] -- Uncanny Lounge by Christopher Lane Davis, Rick Treweek the colony - flat 804 by Glory Nya Scale Journey by S_ASAGIRI exhibition ⁄ back seeing by haruki_haru 東雲風船 - SHINONOME BALLOON - by sakanaplus CyberLove ｜ A7 サイバーラブ by Artsy Glitch Experience by NOOTAU Dracula’s Castle by Tanner White NeoWorlds by Widget365 Light Aquarium by phi16 Break 15˸ Arcanum by PK / rekluma This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality