Tree (VR)
ABOUT
This critically acclaimed and haptically enhanced virtual reality experience transforms you into a majestic rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as a trunk, you’ll experience the tree’s life from a seedling to its fullest form and witness its fate firsthand. Official selection of Sundance Film Festival New Frontier, Tribeca Film Festival Immersive 2017, TED 2017 and WEF 2019 and 2020.
Winslow Porter is an award-winning Brooklyn based director, producer and creative technologist specializing in mixed reality and large-scale immersive installations. Shortly after graduating from NYU Tisch's ITP program, he produced the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival Transmedia Award-winning documentary CLOUDS, among other acclaimed new media projects. Winslow formed studio the New Reality Company with Milica Zec in 2016, creating the critically acclaimed cinematic VR experiences Giant and Tree. They were both named designers in residence at A/D/O; the two were selected to Adweek’s Top 100 creatives as digital innovators. In 2018, Tree won the Lumiere award for Best Location Based VR Short at Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, the Most Innovative Award at Games For Change, two Telly Gold Awards for Use of VR and Social Responsibility in Branded Content, and the Webby People’s Voice Award for VR. Winslow is a current Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum and member of ONX NYC.
CREDITS
Milica Zec
Milica Zec
Devon Baur
Shelley Hu