HAOQUAN
WANG
offline
Storytelling in Mixed Reality Final Project:
A immersive VR performance about the story of how a game master of Metaverse lead a VR addict(audience plays) to go "offline"
Project Name: offline
Project Type: Group Project
Group Member: Haoquan Wang, Yunhao Ye, Yile Xu
My Role: Experience Designer, Story Writer, Scene Designer, Part of Programming
Time Duration: Two weeks
The Story
The story happens in a near future when Metaverse and VR technology are as universal as the current mobile platform, and the virtual world is much more attractive. The main character(Audience plays) is one of the VR addicts who is really into the world. However, the funder of Metaverse has already prophet this situation and leave a secret programming called "the mysterious master" to guide VR addicts to go offline. It will show up as a mission commander/ instruction for player so that they won't find out it is a program to help them.
The Experience Flow
Started with the avatar on a Akira motorcycle, surrounded by desert mountain, the audience receive a mysterious invitation and follow the instruction arrow. When the audience reaches to a hot ballon, he receives a new message, "take my ride, get to the top". (Audience can choose to take ballon or climb the mountain)
By taking ballon, audience can quickly get to the top. If choose to climb, audience will have a chance to look at the desert area of the Metaverse! It will take a few more minutes for climbing
Taking off the ballon, audience will be able to see a magic door, which is a portal to a mysterious bar. The master will give instruction again, for going through the portal. The audience can also hear the spatial sould from thebar.
Time to offline! The master starts to DM the audience and guide them walk through color scale-down corridor, which means that the color of virtual world is fading, time to go back to the reality.
When the audience is indicated to "step forward", audience need to step forward physically to get out of the oculus boundary guardian so that the display content will be switched to monitor view for physical surrounding, "going offline".