Nutcracker:
The Immersive Experience
Take a seat inside the snow globe
San Francisco Ballet, YB, Google, and XREAL bring Nutcracker into a bold new focus with immersive technology. San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker: The Immersive Experience takes you beyond the best seats in the house and onto the stage. Stand in the swirl of the snowstorm. Feel Clara’s party spill around you. Stand face-to-face with the Mouse King himself. Catch every sparkle on the costumes up close.
Boundary-breaking 180-degree imagery puts you shoulder to shoulder with our acclaimed dancers, and a lush score is played by the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. See this cornerstone holiday classic as never before from the Company that brought America its very first Nutcracker.
A Bold New Partnership
This pioneering full-scale spatial preservation of a legacy ballet was developed by San Francisco Ballet and YB in partnership with Google and XREAL for XREAL AURA. Captured in stereoscopic 8K with a Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive three-camera array, the experience places audiences closer than ever to the artistry and emotion of this iconic holiday production.
The full Act I experience arrives on the CultVRe app on XREAL AURA next-gen wired XR glasses with Android XR this December.
The Full Spatial Experience Arrives Dec 4
Don't have an Android XR device?
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Preview Nutcracker: The Immersive Experience in XR
The Preview of Nutcracker: The Immersive Experience is available in the free CultVRe app on Android XR devices, including the new XREAL AURA glasses.
- On your device, open the Google Play Store.
- Search for CultVRe and select Install.
- Open CultVRe from your apps.
- Select San Francisco Ballet on the home screen.
- Scroll to Preview of Nutcracker: The Immersive Experience and select Show More.
- Press Play and enjoy.