Award Winning VR experience GOLAITH opens in Cardiff

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Award winning ‘Goliath: Playing With Reality’ is showing at the Wales Millennium Centre 

Narrated by Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton ‘Golaith’ is a virtual reality experience about a schizophrenic man who struggles through life and finds human connection by playing video games.

Directed by Barry Gene Murphy and May Abdalla, “Goliath” is a beautiful 25-minute animated VR experience that  blurs the limits of reality, demonstrates the weight of mental illness and highlights the supportive power of the gaming world.

Golaith offers something different to other VR experiences, through mind-bending animation, simple in-game engagement and subtle audio gives you more control than any other VR experience like it, this work pushes the parameters of our understanding of how this type of technology can help with mental health conditions like ‘schizophrenia’ and the power of gaming communities.

The project,  which was funded in part by Facebook Reality Labs’ Oculus VR for Good, an initiative designed to support content creators who see VR as “a way to make the world a better place.

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The use of VR technology gives a truly unique presentation of what it is like to live with schizophrenia, which allows the audience to experience for themselves the condition rather than just hearing about it. The graphics, while beautiful and colourful, are disorientating and effectively create the uneasy feeling that accompanies living with mental illness.

Despite the heavy subject matter, Electric Dreams: Goliath: Playing with Reality has a fantastical feel to it and finishes off on a hopeful note. It is a great experience for those who love VR or first timers wanting to give it a try. Audiences are sure to come away with the feeling of awe and new-found understanding.

GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY is at the Wales Millennium centre from the 26th September – 22nd October and is Free at the new VR Bocs 

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