FFF Bavaria Funds Seven XR Projects With €300,000

The FFF allocation committee for Bavarian Extended Realities funding met this week and decided to support two productions and the development of five prototypes with a total of €300,000.

The various XR experiences being funded cover the fields of entertainment, art and culture, social participation and awareness raising for sustainability and climate protection, and include a new project from Reynard Films, which was involved in the award-winning "Emperor" experience, as well as K5 Factory and Lisa Eder Film. An immersive language training environment on German as a professional language in nursing and medicine, whose prototype development was supported by the FFF Bayern, will now go into production, also with FFF funding.

Production

• €80,000 for The Clouds Are 2000 Meters Up by Reynard Films (Agawang) - a single-user VR experience inspired by a novel by Wu Ming-Yi
• €70,000 for EMPATH.AI by Design4real (Munich) - gamified language training environment

Concept/Prototype Development

• €30,000 for Murder is Her Hobby by K5 Factory (Munich) - mixed reality crime thriller experience
• €30,000 for Lili Marleen - Damascus by Dietmar Höss (Rationaltheater, Munich) - MR theatre piece about modern warfare using drones
• €30,000 for Frame Shift by FineLine Film (Ottobrunn) - an exhibition and research project exploring human transformation in an age of increasing virtual realities
• €30,000 for Experiencing Climate Change by Lisa Eder Film (Passau) - VR experience to make the effects of global warming tangible
• €30,000 for The Demise of the ISS Leonardo by Abduct Media (Nuremberg) - MR and social VR experience for one to four people to investigate the demise of a German-Italian tourist space station

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