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We guess one of the reasons we seek out and like documentaries is that there's enough doom and gloom in the everyday world that folks need to see and appreciate goodness and the fact that there is light at the end of the tunnel. While we in LA for the SMPTE conference, we were able to experience the documentary by Springbok Entertainment's Steven-Charles Jaffe, Brandon Zamel and Andrew Cochrane. Cochrane, an immersive content creator who specializes in mediums such as virtual and augmented reality, was anxious for us to experience their most recent short subject, mini-doc - The 100% - and we thought it would be interesting to see if immersive media could really touch the viewer/participant as much as - or more - content you "know" isn't really real. You know, something you can take o™ the HMD, walk away and say, "Jeezz, that was fun." Developed in conjunction with the nationwide Stand Up To Cancer program, The 100% tells the story of Maggie Kurdirka, a young lady who wanted to be a ballerina from a very young age. It's about her work to achieve her goal despite being diagnosed with stage four metastatic cancer. First, if you don't know anyone up close and personal who has or had metastatic cancer, they are just words and the old saying is "words can't hurt you." So how real, up close and personal can even a VR doc be? Well, we spent twice as much time "in" the project than Andrew had planned because we wanted to see if we could understand what the disease meant to her, how she processed it, how she positioned it and perhaps most of all, how she moved forward. That's a lot of responsibility to put on the shoulders of a movie or show; but when you leave a good documentary, it should be with the fact that you got the filmmaker's message.