Charting New Horizons: Anicca Media's Bold Direction for 2024

Charting New Horizons: Anicca Media's Bold Direction for 2024

As the calendar turns to 2024, it’s time to embrace new beginnings and transformative visions. At Anicca Media, we're thrilled to announce an exciting new direction for our journey in storytelling and positive impact. This year marks a significant pivot, as I blend over two decades of transmedia storytelling with regenerative futures research and consulting.

A Renewed Direction

Our passion for authentic, impactful narratives has always been at the heart of Anicca Media. This year, we're taking a bold leap forward by integrating our storytelling expertise with sustainable and regenerative practices. Our focus is on creating content that not only informs and entertains but also inspires action and fosters deep, meaningful connections with our planet.

Innovative solutions for the immersive tech and media industries are at the forefront of this agenda. We are exploring how virtual reality, interactive platforms, and other advanced mediums can bring stories to life in more engaging and impactful ways. The mission is to create experiences that immerse audiences into the heart of each story, its characters - both human and non-human - making every narrative a journey of discovery and transformation.

Recent Projects

Our recent projects, like 'ecosphere' and ‘Sea of Islands', exemplify our commitment to this new direction. These narratives are not just stories but deeply immersive journeys that invite the audience to partake, feel, and engage. They are testaments to our vision of using storytelling as a tool for empathy, understanding, and action.

Regenerative Futures Consulting

This year, we are also excited to embrace a new venture, combining my extensive experience in transmedia storytelling with a passionate dive into regenerative futures research and consulting. This moves is a testament to a commitment in pioneering sustainable and regenerative solutions within the immersive tech and media industries.

A Glimpse into the Future

As we chart this new course, we're also nurturing a seed of an exciting project - the Floating Stories Lab, a regenerative sailboat studio. This exciting initiative, merging with my family’s adventure media platform Voyage Virage, is a fusion of passion and expertise, where we aim to voyage the world facilitating research, stories, and citizen science to effect better futures. setting sail to capture diverse, untold stories from across the globe.

The Floating Stories Lab is a regenerative sailboat studio by Anicca Media and Voyage Virage, poised to voyage the world facilitating research, stories, and citizen science to effect better futures.

Join Us on This Journey

We invite you to join us on this transformative journey. Whether through short films, documentaries, or interactive experiences, our stories are designed to be catalysts for change. Keep an eye on our blog and social media channels for updates, behind-the-scenes looks, and more information about the Floating Stories Lab.

Together, let's make 2024 a year of impactful stories, sustainable solutions, and regenerative futures. At Anicca Media, every story is an opportunity to inspire, educate, and mobilize.

We're just getting started, and the best is yet to come!

- Angie Richard (Davis)

Watch Sea of Islands in cinematic VR, now also available to view free on YouTube

Our VR documentary, Sea of Islands, produced with the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UN DPPA) and PHORIA, centers communities of the Pacific Islands as they share the challenges they already face from the global climate crisis.

Hear their stories in cinematic 360° VR, as they use cultural knowledge to adapt to increasing climate security challenges and safeguard their sacred relationship with the Pacific Ocean and their Sea of islands.

Directed by Joseph Purdam.

Written and Produced by Angie Richard (Anicca Media).

Executive Producer Trent Clews-de Castella.

Produced by the UNDPPA and PHORIA.

And of course there many more incredible folks involved or whom supported the project, without their effort this would not have been possible. Thank you to all.

Special Thanks to Dr Joeli Veitayaki.

Ecosphere launches globally on Oculus Quest and GO for World Ocean's Day

ecosphere, a groundbreaking VR nature series produced in partnership by Phoria, WWF, Oculus, Silverback Films, Anicca Media and XM2, is now available to download on Oculus Quest and GO. Highlighting indigenous champions on the frontline of conservation around the world in ground-breaking cinematic VR 180, ecosphere is a landmark natural history series and Anicca Media couldn’t be more thrilled to join our partners in bringing it to the world in headset today on World Ocean’s Day.

From Venture Beat:

“Shot with pre-production 180-degree 3D cameras based on Z-Cam’s E2, Ecosphere is a technology showcase for next-generation immersive videos, pushing the state of the art for consumer VR experiences. Phoria notes that the videos feature the world’s first 5.7K stereoscopic VR footage at 60 frames per second, delivering high levels of detail and 3D depth at a nausea-reducing level of smoothness. Highly demanding scenes that would normally be destroyed by visual artifacts, such as the movements of schools of fish and shimmers in coral reefs, are rendered almost perfectly in Ecosphere — a major achievement for any app, let alone one that can be enjoyed for free.”

Director Joseph Purdam on the tools filming ecosphere’s Raja Ampat episode.

Discover More: phoria.com.au/projects/ecosphere

Download for Quest & Go:
Quest: oculus.com/experiences/quest/2926036530794417
Go: oculus.com/experiences/go/2856269307784398/