D.C Alacrity · North Carolina
Building the Experience Industry.
Sprinting the Marathon of Tomorrow. We turn excitement for the future into original films, immersive experiences and technology built in North Carolina.
The move
One idea. A team that can operate it. An industry that can grow from it.
Supported by the startup programs of
- Google for StartupsCloud Program
- Cloudflarefor Startups
- Claudefor Startups · Anthropic
- AWS ActivateAmazon Web Services
Early, and already shipping
- 3
- products: a production suite, a story runtime and a bridge into post
- 4
- original properties across series, VR and documentary
- 1st
- interactive live-action VR film made in North Carolina, released free
- 100+
- production modules in Pure Alacrity, free for anyone to use
Technology
Three products. One contract between them.
Software is the company’s second product line. Each one already has something finished attached to it.
Pure Alacrity
The production suite — script, breakdown, schedule, budget, set, post and delivery, reading one production. Works offline.
Open the suite
Alacrity Player
A Unity runtime that plays a branching story straight from the file it was authored into. Shipped in a released title.
How it plays
Alacrity Bridge
The seam into professional post — the shot plan and the day’s record arriving as a real timeline, through OpenTimelineIO.
Where it stands
The capability
A written story becomes something people can play.
Game engines have done the second half for years. None of them know what a call sheet is — in live action a branch is a shooting day, not a line of script.
How the three fit togetherFive stages1/5
1 · Author
The story graph
Scenes, choices and endings, written as a graph you can read. The interactive format carries pathway and choice lines beside the standard set, so the same file is a screenplay a person reads and a map the engine walks.
2 · Produce
Breakdown & schedule
Every branch costed and scheduled like any film. In live action a choice the audience makes is a scene the crew has to shoot both sides of, so the graph and the stripboard are the same object.
3 · Compile
One bundle
A single file. Schema 2.0.0, pinned on both sides and round-trip tested, so either half can change without the other silently breaking.
4 · Run
Alacrity Player
Unity reads the bundle and plays it. It is the runtime inside Right Here Right Now!, and what Prize Pool VR is being built against.
5 · Deliver
Wherever people are
Headset, a flat path, the web — the same graph. Right Here Right Now! is free on Meta Horizon and SideQuest.
Media & experiences
Properties we own.
Original work, not client work. Each is an application of the capabilities above, on a real deadline with a real crew.
Grocery clerk Adam Dawnbringer reunites the ABC Squad, a group of former high-school pranksters, for a game-like dark-web job market. Episodes 1–3 are in post; the Episode 1 on YouTube is an earlier beta, and final Episode 1 is unreleased.
North Carolina’s first interactive live-action VR film. Free on Meta Horizon and SideQuest.
A million-dollar campus water-gun game. Two lives to step into. Friendships, romance and choices that change what winning means.
Surf and beach culture on the Cape Fear coast, under a City of Wilmington permit.
The Experience Industry
What a person meets. The technology that delivers it. The systems that let others build the next one.
We work on all three, and each already has something finished attached to it: a released interactive film, the runtime that plays it, and the production suite it was made with — free for anyone to use.
Explore D.C Agwu’s vision for immersive storytelling and North Carolina’s creative future.
- Released
- Right Here Right Now!Free on Meta Horizon and SideQuest.
- Pinned
- Schema 2.0.0One contract between the suite and the runtime, round-trip tested.
- Running
- Since March 2026Real productions on Pure Alacrity.
Where it goes
From one production to an industry.
The first products are real and in use. Each step is the same move made bigger: a process from one person, made into something a team can operate.
- Now
Shipping
A released interactive film, the runtime that plays it, and the production suite it was made with — free for anyone to use.
- Next
Bigger stories, deeper tools
Finish Sidequest’s three-episode release, develop Prize Pool VR, and build Alacrity Bridge through production and post. A later Sidequest round could add VR-exclusive stories grounded in the ABC Squad.
- Horizon
Across industries
Any field where complicated work has to be coordinated, then delivered as something a person experiences, is the same shape of problem.
Company
Excited for what comes next. Building toward it now.
Alacrity means an eager readiness to act. For us, it is the excitement of imagining what comes next and the commitment to make it real. We bring filmmakers, engineers and collaborators together to build original work, useful technology and lasting opportunity in North Carolina. Sprinting the Marathon of Tomorrow means bringing urgency to today’s work while building for a future bigger than any one project.
What is D.C Alacrity?
A technology and media company building the Experience Industry. It makes original properties, builds the software that makes them possible, and turns the way it works into systems other people can run. Founded in North Carolina.
Is Pure Alacrity really free?
Yes. It is live at dcalacrity.com/pure, needs no account and works with no internet. It has run real productions since March 2026.
Where did Pure Alacrity come from?
Sidequest began with an Episode 1 beta shot in Raleigh in November–December 2024, while D.C Agwu was in community college. Production continued in Raleigh and Wilmington in 2025, followed by Wilmington pickups in January–October 2026. Pure development began in January 2026, after a majority of Episodes 1–3 had been shot. The original shoots did not use Pure; the production problems helped define it. Read the full chronology.
Can I use the Alacrity Player in my own project?
The Player reads the bundle a story graph compiles to, with the schema pinned on both sides. For the runtime, the bundle format or a pipeline of your own, write to us.
Is the Sidequest Episode 1 on YouTube the final episode?
No. It is the beta episode from the early 2024 production. Final Episode 1 has not been released. The current Season 1 Part 1 production covers Episodes 1–3 and approximately 28 shooting days across 2024–2026. See the release status and meet the ABC Squad.
What could come after Sidequest’s first three episodes?
Further squad stories, other perspectives on the Cyber Realm and potential VR-exclusive missions in the next production round. Those are development directions, not announced releases. The traditional series is the first way into the characters and world. Explore the direction.
Where can I watch Right Here Right Now!?
It is free on Meta Horizon and SideQuest — North Carolina’s first interactive live-action VR film, 16 scene nodes across 22 paths.
What is Prize Pool VR?
A live-action VR180 thriller where you choose between Eli and Maya in a campus water-gun competition with a million-dollar prize. Explore loyalty, romance and betrayal across a branching story. In pre-production; qualified for a UNCW CHSSA Research Grant. Explore Prize Pool VR.
Do you take client work?
Yes — shoots, edits, colour, social and destination films, at published rates for North Carolina businesses. We reply with a simple estimate within two business days.
How do I reach you?
One form, routed by topic, on the contact page — or write to [email protected] directly.
Watch, use, hire or partner.
Four original properties, a free production suite, a commercial unit at published rates, and a door open to partners. One form, routed by topic.
- Write to
- [email protected]
- Based in
- North Carolina
- The suite
- dcalacrity.com/pure