Vrse.works

Here Be Dragons (formerly known as Vrse.works) is a virtual reality production company co-founded by Patrick Milling-Smith, Chris Milk and Brian Carmody.

In December 2014, Chris Milk and Spike Jonze captured the Million Man March in NY which protested police brutality for Vice News. Here Be Dragons premiered its first VR experiences on the Within (formerly known as Vrse) app platform at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival including Evolution of Verse, a photo-realistic CGI-rendered 3-D virtual reality film, and Clouds Over Sidra, a virtual reality short documentary made in partnership with the United Nations which follows a 12-year-old girl's life in a Syrian refugee camp. After the Sundance launch, Here Be Dragons captured Saturday Night Live’s 40th Anniversary special in VR and created director Guy Shelmerdine's Catatonic, an immersive journey through an insane asylum in which the audience, bound to a wheelchair, undergoes a sensory shocking horror thrill ride.

In April 2015, Here Be Dragons produced Walking New York, a VR experience made in partnership with the New York Times which follows JR (artist) and his making of a 150-foot-tall portrait of a recent immigrant to NYC that was wheat pasted across the Flatiron Building Pedestrian Plaza for less than 24 hours. Here Be Dragons followed with Director Adam Berg's Nike's The Neymar Jr Effect, which takes viewers into Neymar's POV as he plays soccer and an experiential film for Toms Shoes that gives users the chance to participate in a Toms Giving Trip to Peru. Here Be Dragons continued its partnership with the United Nations to create the VR experience Waves of Grace in October 2015. The film transports viewers to West Point, the most populous slum in the capital of Liberia, and follows the experience of Decontee Davis, an Ebola survivor who uses her immunity to help others affected by the disease.

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