I AM ROBOT 2027

I AM ROBOT - 2027

With renewed energy, and belief that our project is still original, fresh and groundbreaking I've decided to put the feelers out for a new legit touring version of I AM ROBOT. Watch the trailer to get a sense of the energy from our four day event. Read the testimonials below to see described what people made of it. 

Lets make this happen. The world needs joy. And this event was a sheer delight.

The 2017 story

After my 2016 experience directing Marvel/Samsung Avengers VR, I wanted to experiment with social VR, I'd explored the insular feeling of playing a part, being Tony Stark, but there was no connection to others. And what it meant to make VR feel connected... human.

A project formed during copious whskies at FMX 2016. A fusion of admiration between two projects, and the knowledge learned from Avengers VR and NYU’s Ken Perlins’ Holojam. Ken and I realised that if we merged the art and the feeling of both projects, something magic might happen. 

Terrence Masson of SVA NYC, supported our application to SIGGRAPH who awarded us a large space at the 2017 VR village.

I first adapted my PIXIONARY project that I host at colleges/festivals. People plucked from the audience taking a word and modelling it in 3D in under a minute to the COUNTDOWN sound track. I use it as a warm up exercise. For SIGGRAPH I decided to convert the idea to VR. with the VR world being shown on the large screen. UNTIL the concept got picked up on Jimmy Kimmel, and hating to look like I'm copying decided to change it quicky. We'd gotten quiet far too, but along the way I observed peoples behaviour in the headsets, realised we could do more. People were more interested in the social painting than the contest, and enjoyed watching each other pull shapes. So it became HOLO-DOODLE, a social VR party.

As well as hosting 640 people over 4 days, we actually tapped into issues surrounding gender identity and social anxiety. We even got a write up in OUT MAGAZINE.

HOLODOODLE - TRAILER

"I’m a person with social anxiety and going out to clubs always renders me 'friend who watches people’s bags at a booth’. I thank I AM ROBOT for the best clubbing experience in my life! I put that headset on and I cut loose like never before.”

Paloma Rodriguez Volunteer Docent - SIGGRAPH 2017

"As a transgender male at SIGGRAPH I had found myself out of my comfort zone. Once I got into I AM ROBOT, I was really astonished by the very fluid concept of identity. As a robot I felt the most human compassion I'd felt in a long while."

Milo Christian Koleske Volunteer Docent - SIGGRAPH 2017

This project has now been reskinned to I AM ROBOT. With I AM... being the parent project, open to new iterations.

DOWNLOAD THE PDF OUTLINING THE PROJECT HERE

I AM… in the future
The concept was to open this up to I AM… so that companys with IP can adapt the party to their property. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS visited our SIGGRAPH show on multiple days and said quite plainly ‘wow, you’ve nailed social vr’ and invited me to their parks to see how I’d introduce new tech to Universal Studios. I pitched I AM... MINION as an after party once guests had finished the ride. Sadly, I turned up, and hadnt been put with decision makers. So it went nowhere, I truly see this being a thing somewhere, sometime down the line. Before ALL of my hair falls out.