CinemaLeap's First Virtual Suit Wins XR Immersive Award at Kaohsiung
The win puts a CinemaLeap production on a festival stage that nominated 29 works from 16 countries, and gives Yuhara, previously recognized at Kaohsiung for the VR work MOWB, a second award there.
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The XR animation First Virtual Suit, directed by Kazuki Yuhara and produced by CinemaLeap Inc., won the XR Immersive Award in the XR international competition of the 2026 Kaohsiung Film Festival, with results announced on Sunday, October 18. The festival runs from Friday, October 9 to Monday, October 26 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Twenty-nine works from 16 countries were nominated, chosen from several hundred submissions from 33 countries.
Yuhara also took the VR360 Award at the 2020 edition of the same festival for the VR work MOWB. First Virtual Suit screened inside XR COMPETITION, part of the festival's XR DREAMLAND program, and is a multi-participant interactive VR piece about a high school student exploring identity through avatar creation.
For the Taiwan premiere, the team is presenting a spatial audio version made with technical cooperation from Sony Corporation, which converts the in-content audio using the Gaming Virtualizer by 360 Realit.
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