Elliott Mizroch directed Smithsonian Starstruck, a free-roam VR documentary about the life of stars made with Smithsonian astrophysicists. On 2DIAMR, Elliott Mizroch explained how the project went from a Smithsonian brief to Venice Immersive.
Episode
1 h 19 minPodcast
Astronomers rejected our Milky Way: making Smithsonian Starstruck in VR
Tomáš Barnáš, Elliott Mizroch
In Elliott’s words
“We're telling the story of the birth, life, and death of stars through the lens of the world's most powerful telescopes.”
“It sounded like a great creative idea that I had, and I was really proud of myself, and then I handed it to Tomas, and it turned into three months of back and forth work.”
Questions Elliott answered
- How was the black hole in Starstruck made scientifically accurate?
- Elliott Mizroch says black-hole expert Laura Brenneman allowed only the Interstellar black hole as a Hollywood reference; Tomáš Barnáš adds that the team turned its dramatic fog into a flat disc and did not let visitors step inside, since no one knows what is there. ▶ 34:50
Talks about
Related guests
- Olli Huttunen – 3D Gaussian Splatting creator
- Tomáš Barnáš – Co-founder of LumiSway and Overhead4D; producer of Smithsonian Starstruck, Overhead4D
- Nikhil Sawlani – Founder, MultiSet AI
- Arash Keissami – CEO, NIRA
- Arek Szadkowski – Global Lead, ArcGIS Reality, Esri
- Alex Harvey – Co-founder, RiVR