THE SHOEBOX DIORAMA Interactive Dioramas for VR

Currently Working On
- 2015 - Diorama No.1,2 & 3
VR platform conversions
- 2015 - Diorama No.4 : Dear Pigeon Man
Release Episode 1

Future Exhibitions
- 19/10/2015
23/10/2015
- Frankfurter Buchmesse 2016
Diorama No.5 The Opera - multimedia installation
- 10/29/2015
1/11/2015
- SXSW - Gaming Exhibition
The Shoebox Diorama

Past Exhibitions
- 2015 - Cinekid On the Road
Der Grosse Gottlieb Installation
- 10/29/2015
1/11/2015
- Dutch VR days
The Marchland & Panel Talk
- 10/27/2015
1/11/2015
- Klik! Animation Festival
The Marchland
- 10/26/2015
1/11/2015
- De Torenkamer - Opium op 4
Dear Pigeon man & public residency
- 08/22/2015
14/10/2015
- Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival
Der Grosse Gottlieb
- 08/02/2015
08/08/2015
- Notgames Fest 2015
Der Grosse Gottlieb
- 02/05/2015
02/08/2015
- Rotterdam Art Fair
Der Grosse Gottlieb Installation
- 01/24/2015
01/25/2015
- Overkill Festival - Rijksmuseum Twente
Der Grosse Gottlieb Installation
- 04/22/2015
04/25/2015
- Amaze Festival 2015
Diorama No.3 : The Marchland
- 2015 - .... - Game Science Center
Part of collection. Der Grosse Gottlieb Installation
- 27/11/2014
30/18/2014
- City Film Festival Naples
Stereo Photoviewer Software
- 10/27/2014
12/30/2014
- Cinekid Festival
3 Der Grosse Gottlieb Installations
- 09/17/2014
12/14/2014
- Vertigo of Reality - Akademie der Kunste
Der Grosse Gottlieb Installation
- 03/29/2014
03/31/2014
- Woot Play Festival
Der Grosse Gottlieb Installation
- 04/09/2014 - Amaze Festival 2014
Der Grosse Gottlieb & Blocked In

Awards & Honors
- 2015 - AR VR Summit Award - Best Story
Dioramas 1 - 3
- 2015 - Kaleidoscope Film Festival Boston - Audience Award
Der Grosse Gottlieb
- 2014 - Unity Award - Best Non Game Nomination
Der Grosse Gottlieb & Blocked In
- 2014 - Proto Award - Best Audio Design Nomination
Der Grosse Gottlieb
- 2014 - Vertigo of Reality - Akademie der Kunste
Der Grosse Gottlieb Installation
- 2014 - Cinekid Audience Award Nomination
Der Grosse Gottlieb
- 2014 - Creative Industries Fund NL
Dear Pigeon Man
- 2014 - Creative Industries Starters Fund NL
Dear Pigeon Man
- 2014 - Dutch selection Holland Pavillion Gamescom
The Shoebox Diorama as company

Publications
- 10/13/2015 - "VR Dioramas : The Illusionists Way of Telling Stories"
Ctrl 500
- 10/13/2015 - "Deconstructing Depth Cues in Blocked In"
Campfire Reunion
- 10/01/2015 - "The New Age of Virtual Reality Art"
SciArt in America
- 10/13/2015 - "‘Blocked In’ VR Diorama Gets Visual Overhaul and Oculus Runtime v0.7 Update"
Road to VR
- 1/23/2015 - "‘Blocked In’ Creator Daniël Ernst on the Art of the Virtual Reality Diorama"
Road to VR
- 1/23/2015 - "Making great VR games; six lessons learned from "I Expect To Die"
Gamasutra
- 1/23/2015 - HTC Vive: developers react to Valve's virtual reality headset
The Guardian
- 1/26/2015 - Microsoft's Hololens – what do virtual reality developers think?
The Guardian
- 11/04/2014 - Virtual reality lets me be something I used to only dream of: alone
Polygon
- 07/23/2014 - Virtual reality project has you reaching for the stars
Engadget
- 07/23/2014 - I wish every Oculus Rift demo looked this cool
Kotaku
- 07/23/2014 - Kill Screen - How Virtual Reality Might Take Surrealism Next Level
KillScreen
- 04/15/2014 - The Rift Report 10 of the best VR experiences
PC GAMER
- 03/21/2014 - Playstation 4 and Project Morpheus : developers react
The Guardian
- 1/23/2015 - Oculus Rift: Valve promises to take virtual reality to the masses
The Guardian