Tree is a virtual experience that transforms you into a rainforest tree, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2017 New Frontier. With your arms as branches and body as the trunk, you experience the tree’s growth from a seedling into its fullest form and witness its fate firsthand. Director: Milica Zec and Winslow Porter Art Director: Jakob Kudsk Steensen Composer: Aleksandar Protic Haptics: Xin Liu and Yedan Qian (MIT Media Lab) VR Line Producer: Jen Vitale With precisely controlled physical elements including vibration, heat, fan, and body haptics, the team created a fully immersive virtual reality storytelling tool, where the audience no longer watches but is transformed into a new identity, a giant tree in the Peruvian rainforest. Collaborating with The Rainforest Alliance, Tree gives each audience a numbered tree seed after the experience and connect them with the community. The team utilizes virtual, mixed and actual reality to tap into positive social change and explore the human experience.