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This installment is called Platform of the Rio.

I've been avoiding the whole virtual reality thing for a few years now, on purpose.

The idea of having those goggles on my face was just too much.

But my friend Francesca Panetta just... was just brought her virtual reality piece to New York for the Tribeca Film Festival.

And so I decided it was time to take the plunge and see what this whole thing is about.

Six by Nine is a virtual reality piece about solitary confinement in US prison cells.

My friend Fran is very intense.

And this piece that she just co-produced for the Guardian UK is very, very intense.

So you put the goggles on and you are in solitary confinement. You look around you, you're in the cell.

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