Transparency Report: July to December 2025

01Summary

This is Sense/Net’s first half-year transparency report. It covers the six months from July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. From this report we publish figures for each calendar half-year, as well as our annual report each October for the fiscal year to June 30.

The half-year reports give the same figures in the same form each time, so that they can be compared from one half-year to the next. The annual report brings the two halves of a fiscal year together and adds measures that we count once a year. Definitions of the terms used are in section 11.

The half-year in figures

• Performers recorded: 243, 155 of them for the first time.
• Withdrawals of consent before release: 6. Every one was honored.
• Withdrawals from public access after release: 4, completed in a median of 13 days and all within 30.
• Titles retired: 18; 1,757 titles in distribution on December 31, 2025.
• Rights claims received: 32.
• Requests for viewer data from courts and governments: 10; we complied in full with 2 of them.
• Safety incidents during capture: 35, or 9.0 per 1,000 capture hours.
• Appeals decided or open: 53, of which 21 changed our decision.

Simone Donnelly, Head of Trust and Safety

02Consent and performers

Every Fullfield recording is made under the Sense/Net Consent Standard, in version 4.2 since July 1, 2025. A performer agrees to each track separately in a recorded consent session before any capture, is shown the final cut before release, and may withdraw consent before release or ask for a title to be withdrawn after it.

03Withdrawals of consent and retired titles

A performer may withdraw consent at any point before release, to the whole recording or to one or more tracks. A title from which a performer has withdrawn is not released (§4.2). Where the withdrawal covers only the Breath or Heart track, the title may be released without that track. The performer is paid for the work done in every case.

After release, a performer may ask at any time for a title to be withdrawn from public access. We complete the withdrawal within 30 days, pay any residuals already earned, and ask any archive that holds a deposited copy to restrict it (§5.1, §5.2).

A title is retired when it is taken out of distribution for any reason. Retired titles stay in the Library.

04Material from third parties

Most of what we hold we recorded ourselves. This section reports the two sources from which we received material made by others in the half-year: the Kestrel Hill catalogue, which the Library acquired in March 2024, and reference material licensed for Fullfield Ambient.

Kestrel Hill titles return to distribution as Fullfield Archive releases only when every performer in them, or their estate, has signed the current Consent Standard.

Fullfield Ambient is trained on footage recorded by Sense/Net crews and on ambient first-person reference footage licensed from a Tokyo optics partner under the partner’s consent framework. Reference material is used only to train and calibrate Ambient. It never appears in a title, nobody in it appears in one, and it is held apart from the catalogue under §1.4 of the Consent Standard.

05Rights claims and takedown notices

A rights claim is a claim that a Sense/Net title uses something that belongs to someone else. Most concern music heard on a location, or artwork, signs and screens in shot. We check each claim against the clearances held for the title and reply in writing.

We also look for unauthorized copies of our titles on other websites and services. A copy that includes the Breath or Heart track carries a recording of a performer’s body, and we send notices for those copies first.

06Requests from governments and courts

We ask for every request in writing, check that it is valid, narrow it where we can, and tell the person concerned unless the law or a court forbids it. We do not keep a record of what a viewer saw in an adaptive edition, only which title and edition they played, so no request can show it.

National security requests: 0–249. United States law allows these to be reported only in ranges, and we report them in the narrowest range allowed.

07Ratings, age and content warnings

Every title is rated for age and for motion before release and carries a content warning where it needs one. A Sense/Net Player account is held by an adult. A household may add profiles for younger viewers, each set to an age band, and a profile cannot open a title rated above its band.

08Safety during capture and playback

A performer may stop a take at any time, without giving a reason, by raising a closed fist or saying “stop” (§3.1). The capture technician also stops a take for equipment or safety reasons. Injuries and illnesses on set are recorded in the production safety log and reviewed each week by Sense/Net Studios.

Viewers can report discomfort from the Sense/Net Player, and every report is read by a person. A title that draws more reports than its motion rating would lead us to expect is re-rated.

09Appeals and disputes

Viewers can ask us to review a restriction on their account. Viewers, performers and licensees can ask us to review an age rating. A person whose rights claim we did not uphold can ask for it to be looked at again. Each appeal is decided by someone who did not make the first decision.

A performer who believes the Consent Standard has been broken may raise it with performer relations, then with the general counsel, and if it cannot be settled, in binding arbitration in Los Angeles, for which the company pays (§8).

10About these figures

• Figures cover July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. They were extracted on January 30, 2026 from the consent register, the production and safety logs, the Library’s distribution records, the rights and legal request logs and the records of the Sense/Net Player.
• Requests, claims, appeals and incidents are counted in the half-year in which they were received or happened. Outcomes are as at the date of extraction.
• A performer is counted once in a half-year, however many titles they were recorded for. A title is counted in the strand it was released in.
• The figures for the two halves of a fiscal year add up to those in the annual report for that year, except counts of individual performers, which the annual report counts once.
• Percentages are rounded to one decimal place and may not add up to 100. The web and PDF editions of this report carry the same figures.
• This is the first half-year report. Its definitions follow the Consent Standard, version 4.2.

Other reports: Transparency Report 2025 (annual). Questions about this report: trust@sensenetstudios.com.

11Definitions

Performer

A person whose own experience a recording is made from: the person wearing the headpiece (Consent Standard §1.2).

Participant

Any other person who appears in a recording, including released extras and crew in shot (§1.3).

Consent register

The Library’s record of every performer recorded under the Consent Standard since March 2012, with their consent sessions, releases and any withdrawal. A performer is entered once, at their first consent session.

Consent session

A recorded conversation before any capture in which a performer agrees, track by track, to what will be recorded (§2.2). One is held for each performer for each title.

Capture session

A day or part of a day on which a performer is recorded on any track.

Breath and Heart tracks

The two Fullfield tracks that record a performer’s body rather than their performance. They need a consent of their own and may be refused without affecting a booking (§2.3).

Withdrawal before release

A performer’s withdrawal of consent, to a whole recording or to one or more tracks, after capture and before the title is released (§4.1).

Withdrawal from public access

A performer’s request, after release, for a title to be taken out of distribution (§5.1). It is complete when the title can no longer be played or licensed.

Retired title

A title taken out of distribution for any reason. A retired title stays in the Library.

In distribution

Available to play in the Sense/Net Player or to license, in at least one country.

Reference material

Material held only to develop, train or calibrate a production tool, which no viewer sees and which appears in no title (§1.4).

Licensor

A company from which Sense/Net licenses material it did not record.

Rights claim

A claim by another person or company that a Sense/Net title uses something of theirs without permission: music, artwork, a mark, a property or a name or likeness shown in shot.

Takedown notice

A notice Sense/Net sends to a website or service asking it to remove an unauthorized copy of a Sense/Net title.

Request for viewer data

A subpoena, court order, warrant or other legal request for information about a viewer’s account or what they played.

Removal request

A request from a court or government body to remove or restrict a title.

Age rating

All ages (not suitable under 7), 13+, 16+ or 18+, given by Sense/Net before release.

Motion rating

Gentle, Moderate or Strong, given by Sense/Net before release and raised if comfort reports show it is too low.

Content warning

A notice shown before a title plays, for heights, enclosed spaces, deep water, flashing light, animals, a medical setting or a depiction of injury.

Safety incident

An injury or illness to a performer or crew member during a capture session, recorded in the production safety log.

Appeal

A request to Sense/Net to look again at a decision it has made about an account, a rating or a rights claim.