Q&A: Hacking VR Speaker Brian Chirls

✍︎A still from Brian Chirls’ citizen journalism documentary 18 Days in Egypt

What does VR mean for documentary? What are the best and worst uses of VR? What is the future of the medium? Watch and learn.

Immerse is collaborating with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab on a new interview series produced in conjunction with the Lab’s Hacking VR lecture series. Here, in the first video, New York-based creative developer Brian Chirls discusses webVR and his own creative approach to engaging users.

See the whole series of Hacking VR interviews and talks here.

This series is presented by MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, and supported by the MacArthur Foundation.

Immerse is an initiative of Tribeca Film Institute, MIT Open DocLab and The Fledgling Fund. Learn more about our vision for the project here.