SPACE OF ELAPSED
2017|Unity|Virtual Reality
“People often create their own comfort zooms in order to escape from the reality. ”
Demo of the game
This is a recording of the demo for the game.
Below is some still frames from the Unity game and detail introductions about the concept behind the work.
CONCEPT
For this project, I created a space in the middle of nowhere, and arrange the space to be looked like a house for someone to live in. This space contains many different rooms with objects that people see daily. People can have free navigation in the space and explore the secret inside the space.
Although the space seems normal, there are some special objects inside the space can transfer the viewers into another different space. For example, the piano, the pink room, the computer and the dinning table. Each object had a teleport script included. If the viewers get into the colliders of those objects, they will be transfer to a space that contains the same object inside but also talks about a story that is behind the object.
All of the stories are from my own memories. I create these independent spaces in order to share my experience and my memories about these objects to the viewers.
For example, this space with only piano and a lonely background piano music represents one of childhood memories. I was playing piano since I was five years old. I learnt a lot from it, but at the same time it made my life became more intense. Wherever I played, whoever I played for, I can always feel pressure came from other people. I always image myself playing piano inside a small space like this scene, where no one is listening. And I will keep playing this piano forever in this space.
Each of the independent spaces also contains another invisible teleport point that can transfer the viewers back into the beginning house. The teleport points are putting in places that required the viewers to fully explore the independents space before they got to the teleport points.
The computer inside this scene contains a video that created by myself. The topic of the video is elapsed. It had a very similar concepts with this project, so I decided to put it in and let viewers to enjoy the video.
This is a space that represents my memories of my family. The background sound is a record of a family having arguments during the dinner.
If players choose to continue walking, they will fall from the space, and walk into an ambulance. Where they can see medicines all around. This represent the nightmares I had during these time period.
As crossing through the medicine players will find a red square which is the exit of the ambulance.
This independent space contains similar elements from my other project. The pills in the space demonstrates the therapy for my depression. This space is a representation of the memories that I had with my unstable emotion.
I define that a large part of my creation is coming from my emotional catharsis. After I was diagnose of having major depression disorder, I started to realize the fact that my works were mostly about my cognitions and questions for the psychological aspects of myself and other humans in the community. Experiencing depression make me realize that the spiritual origin of this illness is related with our consciousness.
The fact that I always repress my emotion subconsciously, because of the influence from my original family, makes me feel that it is hard for me to speak out my feeling. So I found out that virtual world is a very suitable place for me to build up space about spiritual presentation. Creating scenes that have connections with my memories and cognitions in the virtual world helps me to figure out how can consciousness effects me to repress myself or do something emotionally. It helps me to get away from my depression temporarily. It is a comfort space that I built for myself.
