145: Joe Hunting on “We Met in Virtual Reality” at Sundance

We Met in Virtual Reality, premiering in the Sundance World Documentary Competition, profiles several users on the platform VRChat during the pandemic. Director Joe Hunting uses a camera built for VR so he can film people's avatars in their imagined worlds. The film is more about relationships than technology. Joe's previous short films set in VR can be viewed on his website joeahunting.com. Guest host Samah Ali (who studied VR for her master's degree) interviews Joe about what he learned making his first feature.

Pure Nonfiction's coverage during the Sundance Film Festival is sponsored by National Geographic Documentary Films.