Ferryman Collective | Live Immersive VR Experiences

Ferryman Collective is a passionate group of creative and technical professionals dedicated to bringing groundbreaking live, immersive narratives to life in virtual reality.

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PARA is a horror experience which lives within the intersection of immersive theatre and virtual reality. The audience is greeted and treated as prospective clients as they are introduced to the company's newest innovation: a true artificial intelligence. While PARA’s ambitions seem pure, not all is as it seems at this prodigious startup. As the narrative unfolds, guests play witness to the follies of unchecked ambition and the sacrifices necessary to stay on the bleeding edge.

PARA, our first production, ran through October in 2020.

Indulge in Christmas in VR with Live Immersive actors and a chilling Horror-Christmas story line.

STEP INTO A DARK FABLE SET ON THE SLOPES OF THE
AUSTRIAN ALPS IN THIS TALE OF MORALITY AND MORTALITY. THE
BRIGHTER THE LIGHT, THE DARKER THE SHADOW.
Travel to Austria virtually this holiday season, from the comfort of your own home with an immersive theatrical production of Krampusnacht, a 50-minute immersive horror-Christmas tale. While many Christmas events are closed due to the pandemic, Krampusnacht will be available for experiencing with a virtual reality headset hosted in VRChat.

The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite (2021)

You have been called by an alien creature named Onyx to a mythical planet on which they are living out their final days. You, and two others, are asked to help them transition from this reality to the next.
But before Onyx can lay infinite wisdom at your feet, the weight of your spirit must be assessed. If found ready, you shall embark upon the journey of a lifetime, skipping among the stars, floating above the spheres, and remembering who you really are.
Gumball Dreams is performed live with one actor playing multiple roles. Audiences can attend from anywhere in the world, as long as they have access to a VR headset.

Gumball Dreams had it's world premiere and won the Audience Award for the XR Experience Competition at SXSW 2022 and international premiere at the 79th annual Venice Film Festival.

Murder Ballads: The Calamity at Widows Rock is a live immersive VR dark ride set in a cursed mining town. Combining elements of supernatural folk curses and Grand Guignol-style naturalistic depictions of human depravity, Murder Ballads is set in the Wild West mining town of Widow’s Rock which has been which has been beset by a dark miasma unleashed by the miners. This curse has caused an extreme loss of inhibition among the town’s inhabitants, turning minor tensions into scenes of violence and murder.

Prior to the calamity, Widow’s Rock was a quiet town with a local economy based around its gold mine. All was calm until the miners pushed past some ancient artifacts and unknown writing to chase a large deposit against the wishes of some of the more superstitious miners. They hit the payload, uncovering a pocket of wealth of gold along with a trove of valuable, if ominous-looking artifacts. The trouble started when it came time for the foreman to start collecting the valuables, the miners mutinied, killing the foreman and each other to claim all of the valuables for themselves, leaving all but one of them dead who had disappeared with his riches somewhere deep in the caves. Initially seen as an isolated incident of greed turned violent, incidents of vengeance of retribution quickly began to spring up throughout the town, turning the land into a warzone.

Earth recently had a door appear, The Manager has just put the finishing touches on his newest Nexus
location. After opening, videos of strange creatures performing on stage began to pop up on the
internet, it wasn't long before the show and the club went viral. Everybody wanted to be a part of it, be
at it, be in it. What was it? Where was it? It was like this on every planet he visited, the largest audience
in the universe

You are on a spaceship, traveling in a sleep pod En Route to a new earth colony. You are suddenly awakened early -- the ship’s life support systems are failing.

Now you and your fellow passengers must navigate the ship, uncover clues as to what went wrong, and try to mitigate the damage. Voting at key points creates a choose-your-group’s adventure experience, and your decisions determine who lives and dies in the face of an unwinnable scenario.

En Route is a production by Much Too Much Immersive in association with Ferryman Collective, The Agency Bureau, OmniScope and Seedling Creative.

CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT

OnBoardXR is a first-look incubator and anthology of short-form, stable showcases of live performance in a single event and web browser. The seasonal event is a self-driving sandbox open to participants wishing to prototype or experiment with live 3D/XR/VR/AR/Streaming virtual technologies.

Past work has included theater, dance, improvisation, painting, choose-your-own-adventure, escape rooms, fooling, and puppetry. These projects are created and driven entirely by the performing artists and their teams to devise their own 3D virtual environment, audience interactions and technical integrations.

Confronting the reality of your troubled past has left you with more questions than answers after the events of Welcome to Respite, chapter one of The Severance Theory. Fragments of past memories lie just beyond your reach, preserved between the pages of your life's story. Haunted by the symptoms of your mental disorder, a reluctant visit to an old friend helps bring to light a forgotten memory. Descend into a journey filled with the rush of teenage angst and mischief as you recall a fervent friendship bound stronger by this us-against-the-world adventure!

Following the acclaimed Welcome to Respite, Cognizance is the second chapter of The Severance Theory, a story which explores the parts of our mind that both help us and haunt us through the lens of a mental illness called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder.

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