As a self-professed "comic book person" and "genre head", Ryan Griffen is blown away to have the voice of Batman - Kevin Conroy - attached for his upcoming project, 'Lustration VR'.
Start Beyond co-founder and COO Nathan Anderson has spun out the company's entertainment division into independent venture New Canvas.
Screenwest has launched a pilot $100,000 production and development fund for Western Australian interactive projects, designed to grow the state's work in areas such as virtual reality and games
Create NSW and the ABC have once again teamed up to offer VR practitioners funding via the 360 Vision Virtual Reality Development Initiative, with a continued commitment from both to support up to six teams with $20,000 each.
Visual artist Christian Thompson has received ACMI’s inaugural Mordant Family VR commission.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), together with Catriona and Simon Mordant and the City of Melbourne, has launched an annual virtual reality commission worth $80,000 a year.
Producer Leo Faber and mixed-media artist Shaun Gladwell have founded Badfaith, a new VR collective with members based out of Australia, London and Los Angeles.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) continues its push into VR, with new commissions 'Ghost, Toast and the Things Unsaid' and 'Into the Prehistoric Aquarium' joining previous VR project 'Stuck in the Middle With You.'