StoryTerrace, the leading life story platform partnered up with 8i, the pioneer in volumetric video capture technology to create the world’s first immersive life story VR experience pilot, creatively directed by OtherParts.

StoryTerrace captures people’s life stories in beautiful books, using interviews, conversation, reflection, and narrative. Now, we’ve taken those stories, and with 8i’s extraordinary technology, we’re putting them into virtual reality.  Our storyteller Jerry can talk directly to his future generations in hologram form. We believe it’s the future of biography and storytelling and we’re excited to be at the forefront of this next wave.

After the volumetric recording, 3D environments were built to best accompany Jerry’s stories. Here, we’re working on four separate stories that he tells. We incorporated Jerry’s own home videos and photos. With the final version we went to Jerry to let him and his daughter experience his life stories in VR. Below their response: