{"id":10857,"date":"2018-01-22T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/participant-media-expands-vr-footprint-series-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:37:35","slug":"participant-media-expands-vr-footprint-with-series-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/participant-media-expands-vr-footprint-with-series-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Participant Media Expands VR Footprint with Series on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participant Media is expanding its virtual reality experience <em>Melting Ice<\/em>, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival,<em>\u00a0<\/em>into a four-part series titled <em>This Is Climate Change<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The project, from San Francisco-based production company Condition One and\u00a0directors Danfung Dennis and Eric Strauss, offers three more ten-minute, immersive experiences through which climate change is felt across the globe. Participant Media teamed up with WITHIN to distribute the series, which will launch later this year on the WITHIN app, available on iOS, Android and all major VR headsets. Participant\u2019s expansion of\u00a0<em>Melting Ice\u00a0<\/em>into a fully-fledged series furthers the company\u2019s VR strategy and its mission to tell compelling and impactful stories across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>David Linde, Participant\u2019s CEO, stated, \u201cBy utilizing this innovative medium to demonstrate the catastrophic effects of global warming, Participant continues to invest in new ways to engage our audience in driving global change.\u00a0<em>Melting Ice\u00a0<\/em>was a great first step for us into VR, and we look forward to furthering our relationship with Danfung and WITHIN to offer up three new experiences that will bring attention to the urgent topic of climate change. I\u2019ve known Chris and have been a fan of his for years now, and I know we both agree\u2014it\u2019s about time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to continue the partnership with Participant to\u00a0urgently convey the warning signs of climate change and its devastating effects,\u201d said Dennis. \u201cWe brought our cameras to some of the most remote and beautiful parts of the world to create a unique and immersive series.\u00a0By harnessing the power of VR, we can now translate the abstraction of climate change into a viscerally felt experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WITHIN\u2019s founder, Chris Milk, added,\u00a0\u201cWe are incredibly excited to work with Participant to help bring <em>This Is Climate Change<\/em>\u00a0to the world. Climate change is a crisis which affects us all. 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