Testimony, a virtual reality (VR) documentary by director and media artist Zohar Kfir, premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary features interviews with five survivors of sexual assault – one man and four women –and focuses on the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from the rapes, rather than the attacks themselves. The subjects float in a VR environment, and begin talking when the viewer looks at them. "Using VR is kind of a commitment for people to watch the content," Kfir said, "because when you put on the headset you’re kind of blind [to the rest of the world]. You don’t know
Testimony, a virtual reality (VR) documentary by director and media artist Zohar Kfir, premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary features interviews with five survivors of sexual assault – one man and four women –and focuses on the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from the rapes, rather than the attacks themselves. The subjects float in a VR environment, and begin talking when the viewer looks at them. "Using VR is kind of a commitment for people to watch the content," Kfir said, "because when you put on the headset you’re kind of blind [to the rest of the world]. You give your full attention to the content.”