Les Stroud, Musician and Star of the Hit TV Series Survivorman, to Speak at The Outdoor Adventure Show in Toronto
Les Stroud, known for his award-winning work as the producer, creator, director, and star of the hit TV series Survivorman, is bringing his tales of endurance and wealth of survival knowledge to The Outdoor Adventure Show, Canada’s largest outdoor adventure and travel event, taking place from February 24 – 26 at The International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Les will also be showcasing his upcoming virtual reality experience, Survivorman VR: The Descent, which launches early 2023 on Meta Quest 2 and PCVR headsets. Cream, the production company behind the game, will have a whole booth experience, with playable versions of Survivorman VR: The Descent, cool swag, and exciting prizes to win!
On Saturday, February 25, at 1:30 pm, guests can hear Les sharing captivating and entertaining stories from his many adventures in some of the harshest terrain on planet Earth with his presentation: Survivorman – Les Stroud Alive and in Person!
Survivorman VR: The Descent is a game of endurance, smarts, and skill, with challenges based on real-world survival scenarios as experienced by Les on his many survival expeditions. Les considers himself a teacher above all, and after decades of educating viewers on how to scrape together a shelter and make fire from essentially nothing, he’s bringing the survival lessons to players first-hand in the most immersive form of audio-visual simulation available: virtual reality.
After narrowly evading disaster in a devastating helicopter accident, players must use all of their skills to not only survive severe conditions, but also scale an intimidating mountain to the point where they can be saved. Players must negotiate icy ravines, craft hunting traps, and, most importantly, keep the fire alive by using their arsenal of talents and any objects they can scavenge to fulfill challenges.
Key Features of Survivorman VR: The Descent:
● Learn from a True Survival Legend: Les Stroud is an iconic survivalist who has proven time and time again he’s the best there is at what he does. Lucky for you, he’ll be your guide during your own authentic survival experience in Survivorman VR.
● Photorealistic First-Person Action: Explore a truly immersive world that will include all of the extremes of mountain-top survival
● Fire, Shelter, Food: Surviving extreme environments means paying attention to the state of your body. Keep a close eye on your body temperature, fatigue, and hunger with a handy diegetic HUD-like display mounted on your wrist!
● Cutting Edge VR Tech: Les Stroud is brought to life using Cream’s patented proprietary technology Dynamic Digital Humans (DDH), created in partnership with Sheridan’s SIRT, to produce realistic looking 3D avatars for VR and AR
Survivorman VR: The Descent is in development for Meta Quest 2 and PC VR headsets and will release in early 2023. Wishlist the game on Steam today!
Keep up to date with the latest Survivorman VR news by following the game on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Discord, by liking it on Facebook, and by visiting https://survivormanvr.com/.
About Les Stroud
Les Stroud is one of the world’s most well-known survival experts. Best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman, which featured Les surviving on his own in remote locales with no crew, little or no food, water, or equipment, there are few people on the planet that can match his skills and experience. Survivorman ran for 18 years and is still a featured syndicated series around the world, seven seasons with multiple spin-offs, effectively defining the survival TV series genre.
www.lesstroud.ca
About Cream Productions
Cream Productions has been producing top-rated and distinctive content for television for twenty years and digital content for six. It successfully developed, sold, and delivered traditional and interactive content to clients that include Netflix, Amazon, CNN, Discovery Channel US, Canada and Discovery Network International, National Geographic Channel US and International, Travel Channel, History Canada, BBC America; BBC Worldwide Channels, Discovery ID, OLN Canada, HGTV Canada, W Network Canada, Smithsonian Channel, ZDF, France 5, ProSieben, Channel 4 and Channel Five.
In 2021, Cream published the interactive VR Sci-Fi fiction Dark Threads (Steam) and the mobile AR game Tree Tap Adventure (iOS, Android). Slated for release in early 2023, Survivorman VR, funded by the Canada Media Fund, Ontario Creates and Meta, will be the first VR project Cream will release in the Oculus Quest store. For more information, visit: https://www.creamproductions.com/.
