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An orange tractor on a dirt track between a wooden shed and a white barn, with a windmill beyond the field.

FVRM for Absa

A farm you could walk in a few minutes. Absa used it at Nampo 2022 to show farmers the business the bank offers agricultural producers.

  • Unreal
  • Nampo 2022
  • Silver Smarties
  • Absa

Nampo, 2022

A bank's offer, played on a show floor.

FVRM was a gamified, educational VR experience for Absa at Nampo, the largest agricultural show in the southern hemisphere.

Lumico led concept and narrative. Dale P. Deacon's team at Worldbuild, then Team Epic, built the VR world in Unreal Engine.

Show
Nampo 2022.
Client
Absa. The piece walks farmers through the bank's offers to agricultural producers.
Concept and narrative
Lumico.
World
Unreal Engine. Worldbuild, then Team Epic.
Award
Silver Smarties, 2022. The write-up credits Lumico for the Absa VR experience.

What it had to prove

Minutes, not hours.

A trade-show crowd gives you minutes. FVRM tested whether a bank's offer could be played in one short session on a busy show floor.

The farm is the session. The tractor, the barn, and the track are the place the offer lives in.

Credits

Concept and narrative
Lumico
VR world, Unreal Engine
Dale P. Deacon
Worldbuild
For
Absa

The record

The Smarties write-up is the public listing.

To talk to Worldbuild about the build, write to Dale.