We Met in Virtual Reality Reviews
In a world that's increasingly digitized, Hunting invites us to reflect upon the impact that technology has in our human relationships. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 8, 2023
"We Met in Virtual Reality" raises the bar for VR filmmaking, and has an optimistic vision for the potential of the metaverse.
| Nov 10, 2022
We Met in Virtual Reality is as immersive as VR itself. Rather than delivering an introduction to VRChat for newbies, Hunting sums up the nature of the platform in a single screen caption and tosses us into it.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2022
“We Met in Virtual Reality” is a warmhearted, often humorous look at the sociology of such spaces.
| Aug 8, 2022
It's an extraordinary film, and remarkably personal as it hones in on relationships within VR communities, often spilling out into the real world as well.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2022
The character designs and backdrops are amazingly imaginative; and though the movements and rendering are often glitchy, that only adds to the charm of the residents’ casual conversations.
| Jul 31, 2022
Despite the images we see on screen here being pixelated globs of colour, We Met in Virtual Reality feels just about the most honest and open documentary of the season.
| Jul 29, 2022
... A sunny-side-up view on VR, focusing entirely on the love, companionship and acceptance people experience on the platform, and never mentions how it can be used to perpetuate abuse or harassment.
| Jul 28, 2022
It’s a heady, life-affirming VR journey, with special moments as well as melancholic ones.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2022
This uncynical look at the world of VR and the communities that sit within it, will have a lasting effect on its audience.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2022
WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY is so in love with the novelty of being immersed in virtual reality that the viewer may feel like they’re in a foreign country with no idea how they got there.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 28, 2022
The “authenticity” of reality 온라인카지노추천 was long ago deflated, but what viewers will find in this HBO documentary, along with fantastical avatars, online romance and pandemic refugees looking for connection, is honesty.
| Jul 27, 2022
We Met in Virtual Reality [is] a totally original and utterly groundbreaking endeavor.
| Original Score: 8.0/10 | Jul 27, 2022
Hunting repeatedly surprises with the lyrical beauty he elicits from this brightly colored microcosm.
| Jul 27, 2022
We quickly see the more poignant emotional landscape is every bit as important as that manufactured by pixels and bytes.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 27, 2022
Hunting’s documentary catches up with where many people are finding their dreams realized, and understands that sometimes the dream is simply to be yourself.
| Jul 27, 2022
Groundbreaking documentary that takes place entirely within VR chat rooms and the virtual created universes in which its participants meet, oftentimes in more beautiful worlds than our own.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 24, 2022
It serves as an utterly moving ode to the very real relationships that can be built across geographical and cultural borders within a bizarre, surreal fantasy environment.
| Jun 22, 2022
Hunting shot it in-world with a camera developed on the platform, and it looks marvelous. You may also find yourself wiping away a tear or two.
| Feb 23, 2022
The strongest message of Hunting’s phantasmagorical, often distracted documentary is that humanity has an instinct for turning every space into an opportunity to connect and communicate... no matter what kind of outlandish skin it wears.
| Feb 22, 2022