System: Oculus Rift, Rift S
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: 360 Video and Animation
Input: Keyboard & mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Cut-Off is an immersive 360° VR documentary experience that places the viewer in the middle of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s historic visit to Shoal Lake 40, a First Nation in Canada without access to clean water. Viewers also visit Cross Lake, where a state of emergency was declared after a wave of youth suicides.
Review: Cut-Off: Interactive VR Documentary is a guided or interactive documentary (you get the choice at the start of it) about the people of Shoal Lake and Cross Lake in Canada. The idea is the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is visiting these places and this documentary captures not only the people’s reactions to him but also his reactions to the people.
With several powerful moments and some truly horiffic accounts, this is the story these people life with everyday and do put you into their world is a powerful way of truly understanding what their lives are like.
Cut-Off: Interactive VR Documentary is another powerful experience that shows just how deeply emotional being placed within a scene can be. This is not so much a documentary about the people of Cross Lake, but about you as a person, can you accept what you are seeing, what you are experiencing? I know I couldn’t, because above all else I am human and to see other people (especially the young) suffering like this is hard to swallow and the fact that this is happening in a country like Canada it unforgivable. Well worth a look even it is just to draw eyes on these people’s everyday problems.
