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_Hunger in Los Angeles

Hunger in Los Angeles is a virtual reality film recreating an eyewitness account of an emergency at a Los Angeles food bank.

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2012	Nonny de la Peña
EN	Visit the project

That was my goal. Take a story about people who are hungry, who I felt were invisible, and make them visible in a way that was so compelling that people would really get what the fuck was going on out there. So that works. And it works in a way that has blown my mind.

Nonny de la Peña, Author, to Fast Company

Nonny de la Peña expands her “immersive journalism” approach in this virtual reality film that combines documentary evidence and 3D modeling to simulate the experience of watching a man go into diabetic shock at a Los Angeles food bank. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the project was one of the first mainstream journalistic applications of virtual reality technology. Nonny de la Peña’s collaborator on the project, Palmer Luckey, went on to develop the Oculus Rift headset and in March 2014 sold the company to Facebook for $2 billion.

Project at a Glance :

Language : EN
Country : United States
Year : 2012

Author : Nonny de la Peña
Producer : Nonny de la Peña,Virtual Pyedog
Team : Axyz Design,Bradley Newman,John Brennan,Juliana Griffo,Mark Bolas,Michaela Kobsa-Mark,Phasespace,Tracy McSheery
Developers : Bradley Newman
Designers : Sand Castle Studios

Topics : Community Portrait,Food,Hunger,Journalism,Politics
Technologies : 3D Modeling,Video
Techniques : Immersive,Journalism,Virtual reality

Exhibition Venues : Sundance

Url : http://emblematicgroup.com/experiences/hunger-in-la/

social media :

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Learn more at : http://www.multiplejournalism.org/case/hunger-in-la

Trailer :