Firebird - La Peri
InnerspaceVR · 2016 · Adventure, Indie, VR
PC
Mostly Positive80% · 188
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About Firebird - La Peri
Duration : approx. 15min
Type : Interactive musical experience
Enter a realm of enchantment with "FIREBIRD - La Péri", and play the role of Iskender, a prince seeking the "flower of immortality". You will appear on the stage, visit the ethereal world of La Péri, and witness a magical and poetic encounter as one of the characters... As you try to take possession of the precious flower, guardian spirits will gradually appear. Strive to get the petals of the flower from them and awaken La Péri, a mesmerizing feminine silhouette covered in light. Her dance will dazzle you, but will you be moved enough to give up immortality and let the Péri live ?
“La Péri” is a VR experience based on classical music and ballet by composer Paul Dukas and starring John Rhys-Davies as the Narrator. It relies heavily on the Vive's hand controllers, and will enable you to interact directly with the characters and creatures which populate this world. In this unique and visually stunning production by the award-winning french VR studio Innerspace, choreography, music, story-line and the most high-end technology will merge into one, producing an extraordinary audio-visual experience.
Type : Interactive musical experience
Enter a realm of enchantment with "FIREBIRD - La Péri", and play the role of Iskender, a prince seeking the "flower of immortality". You will appear on the stage, visit the ethereal world of La Péri, and witness a magical and poetic encounter as one of the characters... As you try to take possession of the precious flower, guardian spirits will gradually appear. Strive to get the petals of the flower from them and awaken La Péri, a mesmerizing feminine silhouette covered in light. Her dance will dazzle you, but will you be moved enough to give up immortality and let the Péri live ?
“La Péri” is a VR experience based on classical music and ballet by composer Paul Dukas and starring John Rhys-Davies as the Narrator. It relies heavily on the Vive's hand controllers, and will enable you to interact directly with the characters and creatures which populate this world. In this unique and visually stunning production by the award-winning french VR studio Innerspace, choreography, music, story-line and the most high-end technology will merge into one, producing an extraordinary audio-visual experience.
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Players praise this early VR experience as an artistic and atmospheric achievement with impressive technical presentation, particularly noting its theatrical quality and magical storytelling narrated by John Rhys Davies. However, many criticize it as a brief tech demo lasting only around 17 minutes that doesn't justify its price, with complaints that watching the trailer essentially covers the entire experience, making it feel dated and not worth playing in 2025 despite its historical significance for VR.
A brilliant piece of VR art , in the early days of mainstream VR. Very atmospheric and a technical delight. Innerspace VR went on to create some groundbreaking and quite brilliant games , such as A Fisherman's Tale (1 and 2) - I strongly recommend you give those a go - as complete games. 9 years later, this stands out as a high quality tech demo for the studio at the time.1 found this helpful
Waste of time... If you watch the trailer, you've experienced the entire thing.
An absolutely magical experience for anyone who enjoys theatre. I picked this up for £2 and its worth a fiver of anybodys money, especially the replayability.
Pretty short experience from the early days of VR. Looks cool, but I'd be hard pressed to say you should play it here in 2025.
a 17 mins long story, not worth your time, money.
Library of Realities.com review: From 1912, La Péri was the last composition by French composer Paul Dukas, who described his piece as 'a dance poem in one scene'. Most will know Dukas from The Sorcerer's Apprentice which later featured heavily in Disney's Fantasia, but there's little reason why La Péri shouldn't be equally revered. This modern retelling of La Péri's story with modern technology remains stage-bound, which is where the scene opens when you put on your headset. From your position on the stage, machinery manipulates pieces of set into place around you and a pedestal appears, topped off with a book. Turn the pages of the book as John Rhys Davies narrates the tale of Iskender (Alexander the Great) searching for immortality and stealing it from a winged spirit of Persian culture. Much of the spectacle of this experience literally revolves around you. Not only are you center stage, but manifestations of the winged spirit move about you including some spectacularly rendered motion-capture ballet dancing. These occur in short sequences interspersed by moments of book narration that place you back onto an empty stage again. On occasion you'll be tasked with an action, suc…
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