Reach.love

_Reach.love

lass="excerpt_part">...Nonny de la Peña, as a mix between “Youtube and Squarespace for VR,” Reach.love is designed to make volumetric VR storytelling available to creators without a coding background. Reach.love can...
Out of Exile

_Out of Exile

lass="excerpt_part">Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story is the latest project from VR and “immersive journalism” pioneer Nonny de la Peña. Using the real audio recorded by teenager Daniel Ashley Pierce in...
Interview with Nonny de la Peña

_Interview with Nonny de la Peña

lass="excerpt_part">Sara Rafsky interviewed VR and “immersive journalism” pioneer Nonny de la Peña about her latest piece, “Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story,” included in the New Frontier section of the 2017...
Hunger in Los Angeles

_Hunger in Los Angeles

lass="excerpt_part">...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 Syria

_Project Syria

lass="excerpt_part">According to a joint statement issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and UNICEF last August, one million children have already been forced to flee Syria since...
Use of Force

_Use of Force

lass="excerpt_part">...“immersive journalist” Nonny de la Peña sought to take the experience of witnessing the tragic, brutal event to a whole new level, putting viewers into the moment to heighten their...
Gone Gitmo

_Gone Gitmo

lass="excerpt_part">...first person experience. Gone Gitmo is intended as a tool to raise awareness about the legal and moral no-man’s-land, including clips from de la Peña’s film and transcripts from detainee...