A VR experience C by MHD Fares Qadri

In 1942, Albert Einstein was teaching at Oxford University, and one day, he just gave an exam of physics to his senior class. And he was walking on the campus with his assistant when all of the sudden, the assistant looked at him and said "Dr. Einstein, this exam which you just gave, isn't that exactly the same exam you gave to the same class one year ago?","Yeah, yeah" said Einstein "it's exactly the same"."But Dr. Einstein, how could you possibly do that?", the assistant said. "Well," said Einstein, "the answers have changed." In other words, The question remains the same about struggling for human equality and human rights breaking stereotypes, but the time changes. If we still are giving the same solutions then we are not creative enough to bring new contexts and boundaries for society to develop... same answers will not bring us even to the same place it was leading us before. We live our today inside a media and socio-economical bubble that is determining how "normal" people should act, and what stereotypes they should follow, To form the "inside the box" thinking where we agree with everyone around to save reputation, avoid embarrassment, and feel secure staying in the same social context we are today. but the problem is that (with time) these norms will not even result in the same socio-conditions we have now, things will get more deconstructed that's why the change should not be only revolutionary but should also be treated as a permanent necessity. That's why society should always work on making inclusive projects, to avoid risks of eliminating different people, minorities, and ones who don't have enough power to stand for themselves. When speaking about challenging the norms we need to define the problem (not only fixing the results) and think about how can we change the way people systematically acts towards the issue. Ex.solving climate change, we should care about sustainability, which only changes systematically by rethinking our norms of living. Why doing a film? -Encouragement for creative thinking, initiating moods for the more integrated environment, and looking upon things from a different perspective needs to be a powerful act of film and art. -People usually tend to stick to what they know and the brain usually tends to name things to understand and set boundaries for perception, and through the film, I want to challenge for new perspectives of thinking.

Materials:
The sun cycle: was from the midday-closer to sunset.
The idea in this space materiality was to draw the attention through space visual, harmonic transformation through day cycle, so the light was constantly changing the perception of colors, other materials, and characters, trying to focus the attention on the characters’ interaction and the holistic experience of the space system, rather than any particular component.
Stone: in this space the stone material was almost everywhere, the viewer was inside a shell that changes it’s visual quality very obviously through sun cycle, through light and darkness and gives a more clear background to the colorful VR characters that become a more visually interesting focal points when vibrant colors start to mix.

Water: here water is a thinner fog, that makes the sun rays more poetic and adds to the depth of field in the space around.

In my research, this space represented a space of movability, competence, interactivity, in the story a constantly changing natural and social reality where a person perceives him/her self in action towards space and people. According to Viktor Frankl, people can grow through experience or through learning about others, so to me, it was a quite interesting solution if the first space were about a person exploring oneself, to have the other two about the interaction experience and the third about the others.

Epilogue:

Hello I am here, Can you see me? I came to to meet you,
Hello I am here too, a person coming against light (can’t be really seen)
No I can’t see you,
Can we change directions, I put my self in your place so i understand who you are.

In this scene the characters are the closest to the VR viewer inviting him/her to change directions towards light, so the story in this scene starts with the viewer speaking to characters that look like silhouettes and by exchanging places with them she/she starts to see the faces of the story characters while trying to learn about the others and understand their point of view.
This scene in my research represents the relatedness, and how we understand ourselves through others and through learning different points of view, that’s why the space needed to have a positive-negative direction to light source, by having a discomfort glare on one side of the scene that erases visual details, that reveal when a person in the VR goggles change his/her direction to light. That’s why it was decided to have a glowing light behind the characters that was the sunset.

The water in this scene: is like a shallow sea/river.
Stone: is formed in huge boulders giving the space it’s outer borders and making a sense of a primal, minimalistic, vague amphitheater or a gathering point.

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