XR Architect, Artist, and Creator, Samuel Arsenault-Brassard was in the MOR in May 2020 leading an architecture tour of some of the key chambers in the Museum of Other Realities. Samuel is a Montreal based artist and curator recognized for his expertise in the field of VR and AR Art. Revisiting that tour led us down a design rabbit-hole, so we’ve decided to take you on a short trip through some of our favourite findings.

To start off 2021, we invited sound designers Em Halberstadt and Millie Wissar from ‘A Shell in the Pit’ to pick apart and unpeel the many layers of sound in VR. Here’s a wholesome revisit, or call them closely-taken notes, on the aspects of sound that our guest speakers unblurred.

Em Halberstadt and Millie Wissar from 'A Shell in the Pit' will be in the MOR at 6.30 pm on Thursday, January 28th, 2021 - to deliver a talk about spatial sound. As seasoned sound designers with diverse insights to share from having worked on sound for games, videos, installation art and for short animated films - the duo will be taking us through workflows for some of the work they've done for VR art in the MOR.

Let’s Get Real was the MOR’s first-of-a-kind talk event where we were able to bring two ‘trailblazers’ in a room together to pendulate a new amplitude of understanding VR’s history, and projected future. Our guest speakers Jackie Morie (@skydeas1) and John Orion Young (@JohnOrionYoung) were able to engage those in attendance with far-reaching, infinity-pool immersed perspectives from both their real and virtual investments in art-making.

On Wednesday, November 25th 2020, at 6.00 PM PST, two pioneers from the VR art industry are going to be in conversation about matters of value, ownership, and data collection in the VR art industry. In this talk event, they will be generously sharing their perspective on the genesis of VR and its current growth trajectories, in real time. 

We’re ready to share a collection of six works by artists questioning and challenging the body for its physics, as it climbs meaningfully outside of limbs and limitations to clock a newly calculated body dialogue. The MOR is excited to be back with this show, and most eager to see what conversations emerge from the intersection of these artists. The show opens on November 19th at 6.00 PM PST. Mark your calendars as the event is always a neat opportunity to meet the artists alongside the artwork.

Nick Ladd is a Canadian artist with a background in illustration and 3D animation. As a VR artist, he created the learning resource, Animbrush Academy, and co-founded Studio Syro, an animation studio using the VR painting tool 'Quill' to produce hand-crafted experiences.

We’ve been steeping some of this year’s VIFF selections within our furling walls of immersion for the past month or so. Now, with just a week left to go, the MOR is happy to announce itself effectively fortified as the virtual venue for the VIFF Immersed and VIFF Volumetric Market program. Here’s everything you need to know about VIFF Immersed in the MOR.

Sabby Lighf is a VR Artist and Live Performer whose artistic quest in traditional painting turned into self-seeking in virtual reality. Her VR tale begins sometime in 2018, a little after she saw a Tilt Brush commercial which led her to start exploring painting in a new medium.

In June of pandemically-skewed 2020, Mez Breeze attended Cannes XR Virtual 2020. Here's a decorous guest post encapsulating her experience of some of the exhibited artworks, as noted from the three day event.

The Fabric of Reality event sure expanded the record of MOR-friendly purposes. We were lucky to host some pioneers from fashion-tech and observe a newfangled ruffling of immersive narrative devices, in pursuit of virtual apparel. We got in touch with the fashion designers and their XR counterparts for a debrief, greedy to gain deeper insight about their collaborations of course.

The MoR is excited to be hosting yet another XR possibility from the spectrum of other realities. Launching on July 29th, in partnership with Kaleidoscope, we bring forth The Fabric of Reality. An immersive fashion show that will remain in the MoR for viewing till July 2021.