Murchison Falls is a groundbreaking and award-winning 25-minute 360 VR film that transports the viewer into the heart of Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park. This immersive experience showcases the park's extraordinary beauty and its diverse ecosystem, where the Victoria Nile river flows through lush forests, savanna plains, and powerful waterfalls.
Elephants serve as the central focus, with stunning close-up encounters that reveal their complex social behavior and intelligence. The film explores the park's various habitats, from savanna and wetlands to the dramatic Murchison Falls themselves. It takes the viewer on a breathtaking wildlife adventure, witnessing intimate moments with various species, including bathing warthogs, grazing giraffes, playful young lions, nosy hyenas, and a group of lions feasting on their prey.
Narrated by Sam Marks in an engaging voice-over, this VR film captures the essence of a Planet Earth-like experience, where the viewer is completely surrounded by the wonders of nature without any human presence. Amidst the natural wonder, “Murchison Falls” also addresses the pressing issues of climate change and human development within the park and the dire consequences they are having on the animals in the park.
“Murchison Falls” is here to take you on a thrilling journey through nature, reminding us of our connection to all these incredible creatures and our responsibility to preserve their habitats.
A VR Gorilla production
Directed by: Peter van Apeldoorn & Daan Tan
Year: 2023
Video format: 8K Stereoscopic H265
Audio formats: Spatial & stereo
The film will be available on YouTube for free for a limited time, from 22nd of December.
Obviously best experienced with a VR headset!
If you are interested in licensing this or other 360° VR videos we have made, or wish to create new content, please contact us or visit https://www.vr-gorilla.com/licensing/
VR Gorilla is an Amsterdam based virtual reality production studio. We aim to create the most immersive, enthralling experiences imaginable. We want to give you new experiences and take you places you have never been. We want to tell stories like you’ve never seen and heard them before.
We make 360° video productions that are perfected to be experienced in high end VR headsets like Meta Quest and Pico as well as Cardboard and YouTube/Facebook 360.
Our background as filmmakers give us the advantage of knowing how to tell a story and really captivate your audience. Obviously the rules are different in VR but still there is much that we gain from having this experience.
In our 'Virtual City Trip' episodes we discover the world and visit some of the most beautiful places on earth, so stay tuned for upcoming episodes! More 360° VR videos on our website: http://www.vr-gorilla.com