Co-director of a groundbreaking immersive walk-around VR experience that combines photo and videogrammetry to provide a visceral window into solitary confinement. When Kenny Moore was convicted of aggravated assault, burglary and theft and sent to Maine State Prison at age 18, he expected to serve an 18-month sentence. But after a series of fights and disruptive behavior, he was sent to solitary confinement, where his disruptive behavior only worsened. All in all, Kenny spent five-and-a-half years in solitary confinement and nearly 20 years in and out of prison.
This innovative journalistic experience is based off three years of rigorous investigative reporting and marries cutting-edge photogrammetry technology that places users inside of two photorealistic 3D scanned environments—one of a solitary cell and the other of an ordinary bedroom—with a videogrammetry capture hologram of Kenny.
Festival screenings include SXSW, SIFF, AFI Docs, FoST, Camden International. Winner of Jury Award for Room Scale VR at SXSW. Imperial Crown at the World VR Forum in Switzerland. Award for Excellence in Immersive Storytelling from the Online Journalism Awards (ONA).
A 360 version of the roomscale experience was created for broader distribution.