Fleece VR - REAL LOST MEDIA

What's that?

It's an unreleased AR/VR game featuring the track Fleece from Amnesty (I) starring Edith.

If you want to share any information, please write:

defenders08.fm@gmail.com - Mail

https://t.me/ashwtfonline - Telegram

@defenders08 - Discord

Telegram group chat - https://t.me/+CWmqT6Et4blhNmZi

It was planned for release back in 2017 and was partially in open beta testing. The AR version was a mobile app. It allowed you to throw Edith on the ground, after which she would start dancing with her polygons.

Kausea (creator of the YouTube channel @untitled_profile) said he remembered there was an Android version of Fleece VR. It was previously thought to be an iOS exclusive

Looks like to get access to the closed beta AR version of the app, you had to message Ronen V on instagram with your email

Unity was most likely used in the creation.

In 2017, a playable demo was published on the volume.cc website (now dead and even through Web Archive I couldn't find anything), which was available for about a month, but then was removed after a well-known scandal.

The playable demo was a downloadable version. The mobile app was apparently not published, but there were mentions of some people accessing it on iOS devices.

According to Shaw the only ones likely to have the game files are Char Stiles

The people who worked on it:

Shaw Walters - All technical work for the music video "Fleece" by Crystal Castles:

Site: https://www.moon.graphics/

Discord: new.moon [Replied]

Twitter: spatialweeb [Couldn't get in touch]

Email: autonomousresearcher@gmail.com [Got an answer, I'll post it soon)]

Answer: He had no files saved and the project was turned over to Char Stiles. According to him, most likely only Char S has the files

PLEASE DON'T TEXT HIM ABOUT CRYSTAL CASTLES.

Char Stiles - Worked on the clip

Site: http://charstiles.com/fleece-vr/ 

Email: contact@charstiles.com [I did, there's a reply]

Twitter: https://x.com/CharStiles

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charstiles/ [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

Reply to user u/smartfrigde on Twitter:

Message from user u/smartfrigde in discord:

“Hey it's me from an old thread, I was talking to Char on Twitter and they were close to releasing some stuff they had but someone from CC told them not to do it”

“That's when the director's cut came out”

Ronen V - Director

https://www.instagram.com/ronenv/ [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

creative@ronenv.com [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

personal@ronenv.com [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

Edith Frances:

instagram.com/faint.laurent - Edith Frances's Instagram [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

Band:

snakes.snakes@hotmail.com - The old band mail that used to be on the MySpace page [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

fffawn@gmail.com - The band email [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

Management:

james.sandom@redlightmanagement.com [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

james.sandom@supervisionmgt.com [I wrote, waiting for a reply]

Label:

liesliescorp@gmail.com - The label's mail [Mail's not working.]

Description of files known to exist:

PC version of Fleece VR:

Folder “fleece_Data”:

5 folders with files (unknown names and contents)

One file with .NFO extension

2 files with unidentified extensions

3 files with extension .ASSETS

1 text document (most likely .txt)

3 files with the extension .RESS (but I'm not sure I spelled the file extension correctly)

1 file with unrecognized extension

Run the .exe file with their picture (which is on the avatar of their official YouTube channel) as the icon.

The title of the window is “FLEECE Crystal Castles”.

The process of working on Fleece:

I found a previously unknown Char Stiles channel. It had a previously unknown video of the Fleece development process.

The video was posted on 9/19/2017 under the title "fragExample" with 55 views (at the time of finding it)

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@charlottestiles9917

Video link (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Row6sCB9MbY

Reloading: https://youtu.be/iofuqEeg_oM

Technical part of the creation:

Devices:
Char Stiles on the devices that were used [Source]:

Devices is a 6-minute audio-visual meditation. Snake Eyes (Isabel Vazquez), a Brooklyn-based dancer, vocalist and producer performed her song Devices, while I captured it with 2D footage, 3D Kinect footage via Depth Kit and 3D multi-Kinect footage via CMU’s Panoptic Studio. The footage will be processed and digested, rendering out a video experience, which can be easily shared online.

When Isabel wrote Devices, as a person who suffers from PTSD, she discusses the effect that this disorder has on her intimate relationships, as well as its effects on her physical body. We use the Panoptic Studio to capture and animate Isabel’s body in such a way as to reflect the physical symptoms she has. The experience, when released, will hopefully raise awareness as to the complexity of this issue.

In Devices, manipulation, digitization and distortion of the physical body are means to the technologization and digital digestion of pain. The power of social media is used to effectively “share pain”, and this is a theme explored in the work manifested as the digital filter. However, as opposed to sharing a post on social media, Devices leans to a fine arts approach, and puts the viewer in a place of bodily discomfort, as Snake Eyes’ body twists and distorts.

This is still a work in progress, I write about the process on charstiles.com/devices-wip. and charstiles.com/machine-learning-component-of-devices/

More articles from Char Stiles:

Devices - https://web.archive.org/web/20190409015801/http://charstiles.com/devices-wip/

Machine Learning component of Devices - https://web.archive.org/web/20190408235202/http://charstiles.com/machine-learning-component-of-devices/

Who supposedly might have a copy of the files:

This girl downloaded Fleece VR in August 10, 2017: https://vk.com/sfortzaa

This person downloaded Fleece VR in 2017, but didn't have the files saved: https://t.me/ggssddxxrr

A history of posts:

29.07.2024 - A thread was created about Fleece VR in the r/crystalcastles subreddit (Link)

1.08.2024 - The first thread about Fleece VR on the r/crystalcastles subreddit was banned (Link)

1.08.2024 - I got banned from the Crystal Castles fan server (Link) [Reason: he broke the NDA]

1.08.2024 - Reddit - Fleece Development Process. Previously unknown video from 2017 [Link]

1.08.2024 - Reddit - The music video for Enth [Link]

2.08.2024 - Reddit - r/Lostmedia [Link]

9.08.2024 - Emailed blogger blameitonjorge [blameitonjorge@gmail.com] [I'm waiting for an answer]