POW
A short immersive AR/VR Documentary experience which which presents a first person account of early LSD experiments by the British Military. The viewer interacts with the bizarre experiences of screenwriter and ex-service man Don Webb. In the early 1950's, whilst an Royal Air Force serviceman, Don Webb was subject to two weeks of military trials that would leave a psychological impact that would haunt him till this day. This interactive VR experience shifts sights and sounds in VR and AR and hi-lights the resilience of the human spirit and the healing force of creative expression.
Experiments:psychochemical weapons
A short immersive Mixed Reality animated documentary experience which which presents a first person account of early LSD experiments by the British Military. The viewer interacts with the bizarre experiences of screenwriter and ex-service man Don Webb. In the early 1950's, whilst an Royal Air Force serviceman, Don Webb was subject to two weeks of military trials that would leave a psychological impact that would haunt him till this day. This interactive VR experience shifts sights and sounds in VR and hi-lights the resilience of the human spirit and the healing force of creative expression. The experience will utilize a convergence of 360 video, unity, machine learning and Facebook Api's to personalize and place the viewer into the story.
Some further reading about these military programs.
The story unfolds
At age 19, and for two weeks extra pay, Don Webb underwent the military experiments. These 10 days would be a critical moment that would day 25 years to digest and 50 to understand and uncover. At age 42 he left being a military corporal, and his position leading 80 men, to become an impoverished playwright and eventually affluent screen writer. The first play he wrote was an attempt to dramatize and therefore understand his experience in the military experiment. In his interview with us, he spoke candidly about his experience, and that audio file has becomes a crutial part of the narrative as we explore the effects of those LSD tests on his life, his creative mind and on the explorations of the senses.
SAMSUNG Gear Mixed Reality
We are seeking funding to use deep learning, style transfer, unity and the Facebook API to make uniquely personalized VR experience for samsung gear VR and oculus. This VR project has its concept anchored in unique documentary material that we have created and have exclusive access. We have edited what is essentially a linear biographical podcast with the subject which we will use as the base to this project. By using this as a starting point we believe we will create a meaning experience that avoids the sensationalism of simply creating a trippy vision unity experience. As mentioned above we aim to merge a variety of techniques to personalize the experience for the individual viewer. We aim to create the digital architecture to which the narrative content will sit in the next 4 months. We aim to have the full experience completed in 11 months.
