Winslow Porter
Winslow Porter is an award-winning director, producer and creative technologist specializing in XR as well as large-scale immersive installations. His work focuses on embodying the unique timescales of non-human organisms, through various emerging technologies. He is a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum, a seven-time mentor at the New Museum Incubator, an adjunct NYU Tisch professor and a founding member of ONX Studio. In 2023 he created Forager, an immersive experience featuring the first volumetric mushroom time-lapse. The experience premiered at SXSW 2023, and has since been shown at Venice Film Biennale, SIGGRAPH, Unreal Fest, NAB and the London Film Festival. Previously, Winslow formed the pioneering, new media studio New Reality Company in 2016, creating the critically-acclaimed cinematic VR experiences Giant and Tree. These experiences have been shown across the globe at events like Sundance, Tribeca, TED, The World Economic Forum in Davos/Tianjin, UN General Assembly and ONX Studio.
Project: Rainforest: A Multiplayer AR Experience
Rainforest is an augmented reality experience where you witness the immeasurable wonder and the accelerating devastation that tropical rainforests face. Our mission is to create a real-world impact against deforestation by building awareness and raising funds directly for partnering organizations who are actively championing this cause. According to the data released in IPCC's 2018 report, we now only have 10 years to act in order to keep the global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Having proven that the rainforests are our best defense, it is more important now than ever to create new and inspiring ways of understanding and preserving them.
We are taking all of our research, learnings and technical knowledge from creating Tree to bring a similar but more accessible experience to not just thousands, but millions. Instead of the location-based approach with Tree, where people have to come to museums or conferences to experience a multi-sensory narrative, Rainforest will be available to the masses through common smartphones and tablets. There are over 2.4 billion of these AR compatible devices in use today, each of them replete with incredible cameras, spatial sensors and touch screen interfaces that have limitless potential for interactive narratives. Rainforest can best be described as a Tamagotchi Bonsai forest, unique to you and your environment.