INSIDE “UNCANNY ALLEY”
BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF IMMERSIVE THEATRE IN VR

Thu November 13, 2025 09:00 pm CET

Step inside Uncanny Alley: A New Day, the award-winning VR theatre experience from Ferryman Collective and Virtual Worlds Company. Winner of the XR Must Award for Best Interactivity/Performance, it has toured top international festivals such as Venice where it garnered the Fanheart3 Audience Award, SXSW, Raindance and even translated into French for the NewImages Festival. 

Blending gaming interactivity, immersive design, and cinematic worldbuilding in a cyberpunk world on the brink, you’ll first experience a short demo of the experience, then a backstage tour of how we run the show, reshaping what immersive theatre can be by using technology, performance, and audience agency to push the boundaries of live digital storytelling. 

This session will be live streamed:

Format

Experience

App

VRChat

Location

Uncanny Alley

Duration

45 min

Access via

Presenter

Ferryman Collective
Immersive Theatre Company

Ferryman Collective is an Emmy-winning immersive theatre company creating live performances in virtual worlds. Since emerging in 2020, the collective has brought its work to Tribeca, SXSW and Venice Immersive. Its productions include The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite, winner of Best Narrative Experience at Raindance, and Gumball Dreams, winner of the SXSW Audience Award for XR Experience. In 2024, Ferryman premiered Uncanny Alley: A New Day, created with Virtual Worlds Company, at Venice Immersive. In 2026, the production won the Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program, marking a major milestone for live theatre in VR.

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