SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR & SOUND DESIGNER / thomas ouziel
SOUND SUPERVISOR & MUSIC SUPERVISOR / hamed hokamzadeh
SOUND EDITOR / dan Li
STUDIO ASSISTANT / tsu woodside 

Through help of the Mandela Family, RYOT gained unprecedented access to Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island Cell in Cape Town, South Africa. After 4 hours of LiDAR scans and thousands of high-res photos, RYOT created a full 1:1 photogrammetry duplicate of the place where Nelson Mandela spent decades of his life.

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This museum quality 6DoF experience had two main components; a physical space designed as an exact, 1:1 scale replica of the Robben Island cell where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of the 27 years he was incarcerated, as well as a best-in-class VR experience with interactive sound design. 

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Viewers entered the cell, donned a VR headset, and were immersed in a multi-layered, spatial audio soundscape that changed based on where the viewer stood or moved inside the cell. 

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Production Co. RYOT

Special thanks for the Nelson Mandela Foundation