Editor's note: Tomorrow Transformed explores innovative approaches and opportunities in business and society through technology. (WIRED) -- Next month, a giant industry gathering is going to be flooded with virtual-reality experiences: the Birdly flight simulator; something that lets users confront a kaiju attack; an Oculus Rift-enabled spin on combat training; even a VR installation that lets you go to a college party. But this isn't the line-up for CES—it's the Sundance Film Festival. After bringing a handful of Oculus Rift installations to Sundance in 2014, the festival's New Frontier program, which focuses on innovation in filmmaking, is doubling down and bringing in a much larger slate of virtual reality experiences for 2015. Of the 13 installations in the program, nine feature VR and one of the remaining four—a videogame-esque piece about the Iranian Revolution in 1979—could have a virtual version one day.
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2015's Sundance Film Festival will feature nine virtual reality installations
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The art will be a part of its New Frontier program, which explores innovation in the field
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Virtual reality is become integrated into our film experiences in a more intriguing manner than ever before
Part of the appeal of these @placeholder installations, of course, is that the Oculus Rift is still in developer-only mode—there's not a consumer version yet.
Sounds like a main competition line-up at Sundance, not specifically the @placeholder one.