Research & development
What we are investigating, and how far along it is.
Three lanes, kept apart: what you can use today, what is being built now, and where we think this goes. Nothing in the third lane is a promise.
The production suite
Pure Alacrity, free and public, running real productions since March 2026.
Story graph to runtime
A branching script exported as one bundle and played by the Alacrity Player. Shipped in a released title.
Timeline export
OpenTimelineIO out of the shot plan, so an assembly opens in a professional editor.
The set as its own server
A desktop machine hosts the production on local Wi-Fi; crew join from their phones with a code.
Alacrity Bridge
The editor-side handoff is the first step. The broader goal is connecting ingest, versions, editorial, sound, color, VFX, review and release while each collaborator keeps their tools.
Shared productions
More than one person in the same production, with conflicts surfaced rather than silently resolved.
Mobile
Companion apps for the parts of a production that belong on a phone.
Prize Pool VR
The next interactive title, and the test that the pipeline holds at a larger graph: 41 scenes, 19 choice points and eight typed facts the story carries between them.
Sidequest after the three episodes
Potential VR-exclusive missions and other character perspectives for the next production round, after the traditional release. Test filmed performances, meaningful choices, spatial sound and the complete Pure–Bridge–Player path.
Branching beyond entertainment
Training, onboarding and assessment are branching experiences with consequences — the same authoring problem, none of the tools.
Experiences in physical places
The same compiled graph, played in a venue rather than on a device someone owns.
The coordination layer on its own
The scheduling, dependency and cost model under a production is not film-specific. An open question, not a plan.
What the current work establishes
Each finished thing answers a question that was open.
Research here is not a lab. It is a series of productions and releases chosen so that finishing one settles something we could otherwise only argue about.
| The question | What settled it | What is now possible |
|---|---|---|
| Can branching live action ship? | Right Here Right Now!, released free on Meta Horizon and SideQuest | A story graph can leave a writing tool and arrive on a device the audience owns. |
| Can one contract hold both halves? | Schema 2.0.0, pinned on both sides and round-trip tested | Either half can change without the other silently breaking. |
| Can a production run on the software? | Real productions since March 2026 | The suite has an in-house production history. Repeatable outside adoption is the next test, rather than an automatic consequence of that use. |
| Can a crew use it with no signal? | A desktop machine hosting the production over local Wi-Fi | The day’s record is captured where the work happens. |
If this shape of problem is yours too.
Coordinating complicated work and delivering it as something a person experiences is not only a film problem.
- Write to
- [email protected]
- Based in
- North Carolina
- The suite
- dcalacrity.com/pure