Metawellness XR exploration for metaverse
PROPOSAL
RE+Fractive. VR is an attempt to explore a meta-wellness XR environement that can be navigated fully via 3rd person experience.
Researchers:
Urszula Zwierzynska
Ipek Yilmaz
Zouha Jabal
Year: 2022
About Re+ Fractive.VR
Refractive.VR is a virtual space for visitors that inspires an inner journey and embodies a meta wellness experience. The design journey started by trying to define first what meta wellness could mean. Wellness as an active process through which people become more aware
of themselves and helps them to make choices towards a more successful existence, was the steering axis of the project. This ideology is used as a pattern for our VR experience that we want to offer.Starting from this idea, multiple resulting core concepts were developed such as :
Zero gravity
– because it is a virtual environment. We could take advantage of that fact.
Light fraction
– brings a spectrum of colors, and colors are a vibration of different emotions.
Cocoons
– related to safety, mother’s womb, a place where we feel the closeness.
Holistic, peacefulness
– as emotions
Mind, body & soul
– because this is what wellness is addressing on a human scale
Floating
– as a way to think of a meta experience.
Concept
They are not connected with each other but offer a separate experience. On the
other hand, a composition of walkable ramps whose first base was changed into water, allow the avatar
to explore the plot on both sides of the high street.
Design
Two U-shaped towers, each holding a bubble inside, leaving a third bubble flying in the center as shown here. The bubbles can be accessed through the tower’s base, through an unordinary journey where the avatars are teleported.
