Project Team: Chiao-Fang (Catherine) Chyu, Nikhil Kashyap, Luo Yi Tan, Yang Zhou
Instructors: Shirley Saldamarco, John Dessler, Ricardo Washington
Fall 2016
Team Catharsis is producing an immersive VR Art Experience that attempts to introduce a different style of narrative in the VR space. In the experience, the viewer will be perched on the back of a bird exploring a vast oceanic world. The rules of VR storytelling are yet to be written, and the quest to establish narrative paradigms in the space are in full flow. However, the question we are trying to ask is ‘Can VR be art?’. Parallely the team is also developing a pre-production package for the next team to build on. On a high level, the experience will be set in Virtual Reality and depict a message of cultural unity seen through the eyes of a child.