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Through a range of experiments in a set of unique themes, we explore ways to enhance our interactions with space and improve our everyday lives.
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Re-imagining life at home within the boundaries of our planet.
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Exploring new ways to see and use our homes to elevate our mood and well-being.
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Built by — FIELD.SYSTEMS
FIELD.SYSTEMS is a creative studio in London and Berlin. As artists, designers and consultants, we explore the aesthetics of the near future, and how technology is changing the way we live our lives – working with code and data, moving image and interaction, sculptural and spatial experiences.
Virtual Oasis would use augmented reality (AR) and spatial audio to take you on a guided meditation journey, extending the boundaries of your home into a digital paradise. The mixed reality experience explores an ancient technique through modern technology to provide a space for meditation and restoration amidst increasingly busy lives. Virtual Oasis would use ambient sounds to guide you into a meditative state, building on listening practices such as sound baths in which participants simply let the experience wash over them as a form of relaxation and stress relief.
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While devices such as smartwatches can easily create quantified data on things such as heartbeat, breathing and activity levels, this application would take a more holistic approach. It attempts to understand how such information can drive a therapeutic experience to improve wellbeing. Virtual Oasis would guide you through an AR environment of personalised restorative scenarios that exploit therapeutic colours and conscious breathing exercises.
Visualisation can be a crucial part of meditation, and so Virtual Oasis seeks to use the latest game engine technology to explore a new aesthetic. By splitting the visual output of the engine in different ways and dynamically applying Style Transfer (neural nets) of image data from the surroundings or elsewhere, it creates genuinely original imagery and massively expands the visual repertoire available.
The immersive soundscape of Virtual Oasis would leverage several calming psychoacoustic phenomena, such as binaural beats, the use of differential audio frequencies in each ear to produce the perception of a third tone in the brain. These frequencies are often paired to 'induce' alpha wave brain patterns which some claim can aid stress relief. Head tracking in the application would allow for persistent sound in three dimensions.
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