{"id":1236647,"date":"2025-03-04T06:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236647"},"modified":"2025-03-04T06:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:56:33","slug":"stranger-things-vr-studios-next-project-face-jumping-looks-like-another-patently-weird-vr-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236647","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stranger Things VR\u2019 Studio\u2019s Next Project \u2018Face Jumping\u2019 Looks Like Another Patently Weird VR Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tender Claws, the studio behind Stranger Things VR (2024)<\/em> and Virtual Virtual Reality (2017)<\/em>, announced they\u2019re debuting another patently weird VR experience at SXSW this week, which is all about swapping perspectives by making eye contact.<\/p>\n

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The VR experience, called Face Jumping<\/em>, certainly sounds like another one of Tender Claws\u2019 wildly inventive experiments into virtual reality, as it\u2019s debuting alongside a host of others in the XR Experience Exhibition<\/a> at SXSW\u2019s Fairmont location next week.<\/p>\n

The 30-minute experience is slated to serve up eye-tracked interactions that lets the player change perspectives by making eye contact with characters, animals, and objects. The studio says Face Jumping<\/em>\u00a0invites players to \u201creflect on the act of seeing and being seen, evoking questions about perception, consciousness, and how we connect to others through a glance.\u201d<\/p>\n

While most recently known for developing Stranger Things VR<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>the LA-based studio was also behind the mind-bending theatrical experience\u00a0The Under Presents (2019)<\/em><\/a>, which included live performers interacting with at-home users.<\/p>\n

It calls\u00a0Face Jumping<\/em>\u00a0\u201ca return to Tender Claws\u2019 roots in experimental storytelling, multi-layered narratives, and absurdist explorations of technology and human connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tender Claws hasn\u2019t revealed whether it\u2019s releasing Face Jumping\u00a0<\/em>beyond the experience\u2019s debut at SXSW, which will be open to badge holders on March 9th \u2013 11th in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

Since it primarily makes use of eye-tracking, it could\u00a0hypothetically come to any number of platforms, including Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest Pro, and PSVR 2.\u00a0We\u2019ve reached out to the studio to clarify this, and will update this piece when\/if we know more.<\/p>\n