Entries for the Dutch VR Awards 2017


VR and AR Student Projects

Welcome to The Desert of The Real


ID
74
Submitted to Category
VR and AR Student Projects
Project Title
Welcome to The Desert of The Real
Project Client
Project Description
Do we perceive reality as it is?

In our everyday life, we are constantly dealing with different representations of reality, where it becomes impossible to distinguish what is real, and what is not. `Welcome to the Desert of the Real` is a metaphorical virtual reality interpretation of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality, which suggests that the world we live in has been replaced by a copy world, where we seek simulated stimuli and nothing more. The Desert represents the Real, and mirages represent various kinds of so-called `simulacrums`, such as physical and psychological perceptions, media reality construct, technology and physical world, and societal conventions

and are visualised as a 40 min. journey in a virtual metaphorical landscape, accompanied with an installation, video-trailer, map of the desert printed on 6x6m2 fabric, and a tourist guide which includes the map and 37 texts which are written by me and can also be heard as a voicover in the desert and the mirages.
Project Motivation
In this case the medium of Virtual Reality was chosen conceptually and treated as a platform for storytelling, so it's not a VR project made for a sake of just making something fun with VR. It is based on complex philosophical ideas and the goal was to create an interactive storytelling experience to make these ideas accessible to the public. The project is heavily based on research in such fields, as philosophy, psychology, neurophysics, culture and pop-culture and has many layers and references. It can be considered also educational, and I personally would present it as a VR version of reading a book, rather than a `game`. From my perspective, it was not done very often yet.
URL with more info / demo / video
http://leeeeza.com/desert-of-the-real.html <--- documentation the `game` file will be sent to the email
Name
Leeza Pritychenko
Company

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