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title: Through the Brambles
description: Through the Brambles, the 360° VR film from Third Wall Studio directed by Jacob McCoy, May 2026, built inside Burlap from prompted 360° imagery.
url: https://www.sarth.net/transmissions/through-the-brambles/
published: 2026-05-11
facet: dream
credit: *Through the Brambles*, 2026: a 360° VR film from Third Wall Studio, directed by Jacob McCoy, made in Burlap, the app Sarth Calhoun created; Calhoun founded the studio. Stills by Gemini, motion by Veo, narration by ElevenLabs, edit and ambisonic mix in DaVinci Resolve.
author: Sarth Calhoun
---
[Transmissions](/transmissions/) / Through the Brambles

Transmission · Dream

# Through the Brambles

A 360° VR film from Third Wall Studio, directed by Jacob McCoy and built inside Burlap.

*Through the Brambles*, directed by [Jacob McCoy](/conspirators/jacob-mccoy/), is a VR story built entirely inside [Burlap](/conspiracies/burlap/). Every scene began as a prompted 360° image, then became part of a single journey for headset playback. Gemini made the stills, Veo brought them to life, ElevenLabs handled narration, and Resolve held the edit and ambisonic mix. [Third Wall Studio](/conspiracies/third-wall-studio/) put it on YouTube on May 11, 2026, and it is also at [thirdwallstudio.com/through-the-brambles](https://www.thirdwallstudio.com/through-the-brambles), with a case study.

[Embedded player](https://www.youtube.com/embed/ttWqwhzE-yA)

The credit: *Through the Brambles*, 2026: a 360° VR film from Third Wall Studio, directed by Jacob McCoy, made in Burlap, the app Sarth Calhoun created; Calhoun founded the studio. Stills by Gemini, motion by Veo, narration by ElevenLabs, edit and ambisonic mix in DaVinci Resolve.

## How it was made

The studio’s page on the film says:

> Through the Brambles is a fully AI-generated VR narrative, designed for headset playback. Every frame and environment was created with Gemini’s image and video models, prompted as 360 degree equirectangular imagery and assembled into a continuous, immersive journey.
> 
> The piece came out of an ongoing exploration inside Burlap, an AI-native canvas workflow tool, where I was testing the edges of what current models could actually do. Equirectangular generation kept opening up — Nano Banana could produce consistent 360 stills, and Veo 3.1, with aggressive prompting, could hold that geometry together through motion. After some early experiments with shorter, gimmickier VR concepts, I wanted to see if the pipeline could carry a real narrative. A black rotary telephone on a table became the spatial anchor, holding the viewer’s orientation as the world shifts around them. ElevenLabs voiced the narration. Edit and ambisonics mix were finished in DaVinci Resolve.
> 
> Through the Brambles is an early attempt at narrative immersive work built entirely from prompts — a small proof that generative tools can carry storytelling weight inside a headset, not just spectacle.

[thirdwallstudio.com/through-the-brambles](https://www.thirdwallstudio.com/through-the-brambles)

The description is the one on this site’s Third Wall Studio page. The quoted paragraphs are the studio’s page on the film, as published. The date is the YouTube upload.