This immersive VR project by OpenDocLab Fellow Rus Gant will be a journey through time and space to explore other forms of reality, called “virtuality,” through the rich past, present and future of human immersive creativity, vision, ingenuity and culture.
The project will follow the very human quest for human-made immersive environments that seem to our senses to be real but actually are concoctions of our imagination and our mind’s ability to synthesize many variations of reality from a multitude of sensory inputs.
The project will journey from the caves of Southern France at the end of the last Ice Age to today’s high-tech America and on into the future, with fast-rising Asia, as we trace our human trail of immersive creation and imagination and its myriad forms in alternate reality.
The story is much more than a technology story although the full history of the many technologies involved will be explored. It is an ancient story, about storytelling itself—and the human desire to represent the world we live in and the many worlds we wish we lived in, past, present and future.
The project will be “feature-length” but divided into chapters that will be interactively selectable to provide a unique path and length of viewing for each viewer. The final project will be cross-platform with a heavy use of ambisonic audio and real-time, cloud-based interactivity.