YUTING TAO
Consiousness Land
VR Immersive Installation, individual studio work, winter 2021, Yuting Tao
When dreams and memories are intertwined, embrace the essence of Shengnan’s spiritual world, a mixture of past memory, fear and love. Discover the land with VR.
INSPIRATION
In the painfully specific Chinese educational criteria, the primary school children are required to attend school starting from 7am in the morning. Inspired from the old Chinese idiom 一日之计在于晨 (The energy generated from the morning), the schools are highly encouraged to start learning from early morning. Therefore, it would be a harsh time for the young children in both Z and A Generations to wake up and learn. Sourcing from both online mapping tools (Google Map, GIS) and onsite photos taken from my parents, I learned about the construction and planning of my community. I modeled and recreated the onsite community setting based on photogrammetry texture and lowpoly forms.
A century ago, Sigmund Freud established his dream hypothesis. He studied hundreds of patients’ dreams and concluded that each dream you have, whether terrifying or beautiful, meets a subconscious desire, either directly or symbolically. Our subliminal ambitions and worries cast a pall over our dreams. In a dream, the human brain weaves together many narratives and scenes to create a surreal immersive experience for people’s “consciousness”—similar to inborn virtual reality techniques—while memories fade with time. Conscious Island allows players to absorb the essence of all aspects of the spiritual realm when dreams and recollections are interwoven.
Characters
BUSY AND ANGRY FREQUENTLY
A 6-YEAR PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILD
BUSY CALLING ON THE PHONE ALL THE TIME
Settings
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Clips from Oculus Quest VR
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