The virtual reality experience On The Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) is available on March 24 for Oculus Quest 2

The virtual reality experience On The Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) is available on March 24 for Oculus Quest 2

The latest VR creation by ARTE France, Atlas V and Archer’s Mark immerses the viewer into 38 minutes of nuclear terror

Atlas V, Archer’s Mark and Meta, co-producers and ARTE France, co-producer and editor are proud to announce that their virtual reality documentary On The Morning You wake (to the End of the World) will be available on March 24 on Oculus Quest 2 – The documentary will also be available in a 2D version on arte.tv and YouTube on April 19.

BALISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII.

SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

On January 13, 2018, every inhabitant of Hawaii received a chilling text message at the same time. Chaos ensued and panic spread through the population for 38 long minutes.

Where to go for shelter? What would be left of their community if a nuclear attack actually occurred? How can the federal government of the United States pursue nuclear policies that threaten the entire world population every day?

The alert was eventually refuted: an emergency management agency staff member had apparently made a mistake… A human error, but an alert deemed credible in a very tense situation between the United States and North Korea, with Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un having engaged shortly before in a verbal escalation in a context of atomic threat.

1.4 million people were suddenly confronted with a very real and urgent threat, irreversibly altering their worldview.

As Kauai resident Cynthia Lazaroff would later say, “The warning was false, but the nuclear threat is real…[this] is not a scenario, nor a video game…we experienced it personally, we felt the terror.”

Although nothing happened that day, everything changed.

On The Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) is a virtual reality documentary that captures the voices of people who experienced the real and imminent threat of nuclear weapons, brought to life in the words of poet and activist Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio.

For the majority of the population, the use of atomic force is unthinkable, unimaginable and out of our control. On The Morning You Wake makes this threat real and illustrates through the experience of the citizens of Hawaii the fundamental injustice of a world held hostage by nuclear weapons.

On The Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)

Virtual reality documentary created by Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Arnaud Colinart and Pierre Zandrowicz

Script : Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison

Coproduction: ARTE France, Archer’s Mark, Atlas V, VR For Good META, Games for Change, Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security

About ARTE  

Founded in 1992, ARTE is a European public cultural television channel and digital network with a focus on creation and innovation. Over the past ten years, ARTE has co-produced multiple interactive creations such as the games Type:Rider, Homo Machina, Vectronom, The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature, Unmaze, Bury Me My Love and Inua: A story in Ice and Time. More information on the official website and the Twitter page of Arte Interactif.

About ATLAS V

Atlas V is behind some of the most awarded pieces in the field of New Media, with projects shown at A-List festivals such as Venice Mostra (Gold Lion 2018), Sundance (5 selections), Peabody (Future of Media award 2019), Tribeca, SXSW (Storytelling Award 2019), Sheffield, Telluride, Cannes, Busan, Sitges…In 2020, AtlasV has launched a full capacity servicing company named Albyon, with a team of real time technology specialists, who operate at the frontier of video game and movie production.