Leeds Young Film Festival: VR Cinema
Our free, family-friendly VR Cinema is all about exploring what’s possible with new technology and helping to spark big imaginations.
The VR cinema is for ages 7+. Children, young people and adults are all welcome. For people aged 7–12, a parent or guardian will be asked to sign a consent form on arrival.
All sessions are free to attend, just book with us directly at the Science and Media Museum when you arrive. Sessions will run throughout the day. VR experiences last around 15 minutes on average and the experience selection will vary depending on the time and day.
The experiences:
Drop in the Ocean is a fun, interactive experience that immerses you deep beneath the surface of our planet’s most crucial resource. Ride a jellyfish. Meet a leatherback turtle. Come face-to-face with a whale shark. From the perspective of a tiny plankton, you’ll explore the ocean in stunning virtual reality, and see why the need to protect it is so urgent.
When Something Happens is a VR short film that takes viewers on a journey through the history of the universe. Inspired by David Christians’ Big History project, the film starts from a cosmic void and guides the audience through significant events such as the big bang, star formation, the birth of DNA, and the modern human revolution.
Step into The Museum of Imagined Futures which exhibits predictions for the future and enables visitors to step forward in time to get a glimpse of how humans and technology might live in balance with nature.
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