Live VR experience Mary Shelley Lives Here, where participants in VRChat experience a dystopian story about war, loss and friendship, will be present at Meaningful XR in Portland and online on May 30/31.

Mary Shelley wrote ‘Frankenstein’ but also ‘The Last Man’, a dystopia about a world that is dying due to climate change and war, and people that are too preoccupied with their own personal growth and happiness to change the tides. The book was inspired on her own life, dealing with losing friends and family and trying to find a new way to live, alone. Live VR experience ‘Mary Shelley Lives Here’ now shows Mary as ‘The Last Man’ of her own book, living alone on a small island, in harmony with nature. Her visitors (the audience) get to personify the people in her life and re-enact her story with her. A live immersive experience about coming to terms with death, losing your tight group of friends and starting a new life as an individual. 

Jedidjah directed and wrote this experience for Hummingbird Interactive, her company dedicated to developing small immersive experiences. It was selected for multiple festivals in 2024 and 2025 and will now contribute to this academic conference dedicated to exploring the transformative potential of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality.
For more info and tickets: https://www.meaningfulxr.org/