As published in Inside VR Newsletter (1/28/2020)
Eve Weston is a writer, director, and producer. She is also CEO at independent XR content studio Exelauno, which won DreamlandXR’s Best Project for Television at CES Las Vegas this year with her show The BizNest, the world’s first immersive sitcom. The independent project, which was produced by an all-female team, won against competition from NBC Nightly News, ABC News, CNN, America’s Got Talent, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, NBC Universal and Verizon.
In the process of developing a sitcom specifically for Virtual Reality, Weston and her team developed a new approach for telling stories in a 360-degree environment, fully utilizing the space around the viewer in all directions and creating a rich storytelling environment with a lot more interwoven stories than you might find in a traditional television sitcom.
“The BizNest is a workplace comedy that takes place in a co-working space where YOU, the viewer, are one of the members. Imagine watching ‘The Office’ from the desk next to Jim,” she explains.
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