MidsummerNight X

Selected XR Development Market

Information

A fictional escape room made out of your dreams. Meet an AI-Dream Fairy who "reads" your psyche and weaves an escape-room-like dreamscape in VR that you need to "solve". A journey for 6 friends or strangers who uncover the mysteries of each others' dreams.

THE DIFFERENCE MACHINE is an interdisciplinary collective with a mission to discover and shape the future of entertainment. We act on an intersection of content creation, technology, and research to develop new forms of storytelling using AI and XR.

OUR VISION:

AI-Native: Instead of utilizing artificial intelligence to replace human creators, we apply it to drive storytelling in ways never seen or possible before.

Illuminative: With neural networks representing a new way to process information, we use them as mirrors of the human psyche and culture to provide cathartic experiences to our audiences.

Human-centric: Amongst the fears of technology as an isolating force, we use it to develop entertainment that brings people closer to themselves and each other.

Lead artist(s)

Elena Lyubarskaya, Sofya Brize, David Steiner

Thematic(s)

Dreams, Psychology, Symbolism, Growth

Estimated duration (minutes)

Name of the producer(s)

Elena Lyubarskaya, David Steiner, Sofya Brize

Languages of your experience

EnglishFrenchGerman

Play Area

Room Scale

Technologies used

Hand trackingInteractivityReal-time EngineArtificial IntelligenceVirtual Realityroom-scale trackingbody trackingXR gamified experience

Distribution Strategy

Release Date

TBD

Number of user(s)

Multi-user experienceMulti-user

Device(s) compatibility

HTC Vive, Apple Vision Pro, HTC Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive Pro, Oculus Rift, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 2, PlayStation VR, PlayStation VR2, Oculus Rift S, Varjo XR-3 / VR-3

Targeted audience

Wide audiences interested in seeing themsevles through the mirror of AI, including teenagers-