Meet Les Stroud: Survivorman (Photo/Les Stroud) Fans of Stroud - or comfort-of-your-home survival challenges - can look for an early 2023 release date. It’s his latest manifestation of edutainment, and he’s clearly excited about the possibilities. He may not be doing the TV show anymore, but he’s creating a VR tool for people who want more of it. This is Stroud’s way of continuing his art, of growing and evolving with it. “Now that we’re really into it, I realized, ‘Hang on, we’ve got jungles, we’ve got deserts, we’ve got oceans, we’ve got forests.’ And it goes on and on,” Stroud said.
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Stroud hopes that if this is successful, he and his partners at Cream Digital will be able to take this survival simulator to as many places as his show, “Survivorman,” took him. He’ll guide you through the steps, call you out when you do something wrong, and celebrate with you when you get things right.įor players, it will be like they were pulled straight into an episode of “Survivorman.” Creating a ‘Survivorman’ virtual-reality experience (photo/Les Stroud)Īnd “Into the Descent” is just the first scenario - the pilot, if you will. He will be right there with you (digitally) in the VR space. You survive, but to stay alive, you’ll have to employ lessons from Stroud. “Think of it like a simulator for helicopter flying,” Stroud said of the “Survivorman VR” video game.Īppropriately, it starts with a helicopter crash on the side of a mountain.
Meet ‘Survivorman VR: Into the Descent’ (Photo/Cream Digital) Stroud’s passion for what he calls “edutainment” (education + entertainment) hasn’t waned at all. With his soon-to-release virtual-reality (VR) survival simulator, the former “Survivorman” television star plans to continue teaching survival - even though he’s been retired from his hit show for 6 years. Adding, of his own art, “I really don’t want to stop. And I look up to those artists,” Stroud told GearJunkie. The ones who die still making their art, who grow and evolve and change with their craft, without stopping or giving it up. Les Stroud has always admired artists who never stop creating. Now, 6 years after his survival show, Les Stroud is at it again - this time with a virtual-reality survival simulator.
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He spent years traveling the world putting himself in serious survival situations so he could show us how to get out of them.
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