NL Lounge: UpscaleXR presents FAR a 7-minute VR poem.
On June 3, the NL Lounge is your base camp for the day: a place to land between sessions, make new connections, and get a feel for what the Netherlands is building right now.
At 3 PM, UpscaleXR presents FAR, a 7-minute VR poem.
A hand-drawn phone booth. A voicemail. Night falls, and reality begins to blur. FAR is a 7-minute VR poem guiding you through dreamlike, fragmented landscapes where distance and longing become tangible.
The visitor steps into a hand-drawn phone booth and receives a voicemail message. Night falls and the boundaries between reality and fiction begin to blur. A poetry-driven narrative about absence and yearning for connection guides you through dreamlike, fragmented landscapes, where distance and longing become tangible.
https://www.see-nl.com/artikel/20260507-far
Floris Smit, Founder & IX Producer, UpscaleXR — A production house specialising in large-scale XR for live events and cultural institutions — the only European organisation consistently running 100 to 300 simultaneous headsets.
Dorien Dijkhuis is a Dutch writer, poet, artist and voice actor. Her work spans poetry, prose, journalism and immersive media — including a VR experience on distance and longing, and Solastalgia, a musical performance on grief and climate pain.
NL House @ SXSW London
On June 3 2026, NL House opens for a day that runs from a morning wake-up call about where ambitious people should actually point their talent, to late-night conversations about what Amsterdam's after-dark culture is building next.
Expect cities to make the case for why they deserve your attention. Brands and studios showcasing work that moves people. Artists and technologists with projects that refuse to fit neatly into a single discipline. Explore the NL Lounge, where ten Dutch startups will showcase their technological creativity.
Presented by New Dutch Wave and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, created in collaboration with Dutch Digital Design, Creative Industries Immersive Impact Coalition, EIT Culture & Creativity, the City of Amsterdam, ROM Utrecht Region, Innovally, Gielissen, WT Interactive, and Dentsu Lab.
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