Deja Vu is an interactive VR film that presents an endless story across three timelines of a single event, where past, present, and future intertwine to change a painful memory of past reality with a happy ending in present virtual reality, but, is it possible?
Officially selected for Laval Virtual 2022, it represents a new method of interactive storytelling for the virtual reality medium, introduced at the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2023 in Kobe, Japan.
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The story concentrates upon anArchitect. He is annoyed by a memory of rejection by the character Liz, aformer love. So, he decides to create a loop in time to change the events as hewishes. He redesigns the place where he met Liz to express his love again. He,the Architect, creates three different timelines of that fateful day, eachcentred in one of the parallel universes. In one, the young Architect, Tom, iswaiting for Liz in order to express his feelings and suffer the rejectionagain. In another, the Architect explains to Liz how she had previouslyrejected him, which in effect caused him to design this virtual reality. In thefinal universe, the Architect and Liz are a happy couple visiting the artgallery.Later, the Architect experiencesa Deja Vu and realises that there is a glitch in the matrix he has designed.The audience recognises that the intervention of the virtual system caused Lizto reject the proposal in the first instance. It reveals an interaction betweenthe current virtual reality system and real events from the past.
ICIDS Conference,
Kobe, Japan.
Nov 2023
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21 min
Media & Performance Research Symposium, Staffordshire University, UK.
Jan 2022
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13 min
Beyond Conference,
Belfast, Northern Irland
Oct 2021
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9 min