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VR Time Machine

A trip to Big Future.

Good day passengers. This is your boarding call for our VR Time Machine. Your destination: Big Future. Mode of transport: Virtual Reality. We have clear weather today. Our flight time takes not 10, 100 or 1000 years, but billions of years ahead into the future.

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Welcome time travelers.

For how many years have the Earth and the universe been around? And for how long have humans been here? If we see how old our universe is, we humans have been on Earth for a relatively short time. The dreams we have about the future are short-term too if you place them in the perspective of deep time.

Are you ready to travel a few billion years ahead?

Next Nature is taking you on a voyage to the distant future. With our VR Time Machine you will explore the possibilities of human evolution and all our planet's transformations. We combined scientific knowledge, philosophy, and imagination into one virtual reality experience while a carousel-like structure sends you floating into the air. Your trip to Big Future will take you forward in time, to the end of the Earth, the solar system, and the beginning of everything.

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Plan your visit

Our VR Time Machine is currently on display at the futuristic Evoluon building in Eindhoven as part of the RetroFuture exhibition. We dedicated 3,000 square meters of exhibition space about yesterday's future through design, art, science and film. Will humans still be alive in a billion years? And how do we become good ancestors of people, the nature and technology of our future?

Plan your visit

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  • Concept & Research

    Directors: Floris Kaayk & Koert van Mensvoort

    Installation concept & design: Maze de Boer

    Scenario: Koert van Mensvoort & Floris Kaayk

    Scientific advice: Frans Snik, Rob van Hattum, Lisa Becking, Erik van Sebille, Daniel Oberski, Behnam Taebi

  • Production

    3D modelling & Asset development: Organism Studios, Adriaan & Rik Veldhuizen

    Animation & Rendering: Floris Kaayk

    Interaction design & additional audio design:

    Marcus Graf

    Music: Mattheis

    Sound Design: Wart Warmsteker

    Co-producers: Next Nature Network | Koert van Mensvoort & Tim Hoogesteger, seriousFilm | Koert Davidse & Marc Thelosen

    Design Assistant: Silvia Cantalupi

    Line Producer: Lies de Jager

    Technical team: Marcus Graf, Hans Broers, Martijn van Nunen

    Education: STRP | Shirley Hendrikse, Djoeke Schoots

    Next Nature Academy | Arida Bandringa, Rolinka Kattouw

    Academy program: Rachel Owusu, Honor Newman, Lucas Zarzoso Hueck, Ruben Baart, Rolinka Kattouw

    Production coordinator: Simon Bavinck

    Coordinator volunteers: Mitchell Multem

    Marketing: Hans van Rijsbergen, Saskia Wesseling

    Graphic Design: UNDOG

    Web developers: Christian Eckert, Sven Ewers

  • Partners

    This production is produced within the framework of Immerse\Interact, a collaboration of the Netherlands Film Fund and Creative Industries Fund NL

    Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

    STROOM The Hague

    Amsterdam Fund for the Arts

    City of Eindhoven

    Province of Noord-Brabant

    Mondriaan Fund

    VriendenLoterij Fund

    Regio Deal Brainport Eindhoven

    Copyright 2022 Next Nature Network / seriousFilm