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Institute for IDEAS

Institute for Immersive Designs, Experiences, Applications, and Stories

Institute for IDEAS

Institute for Immersive Designs, Experiences, Applications, and Stories

Vera

“Vera” is an adaptation of a short story by Katherine Mansfield entitled “Dill Pickle”.
“Vera” is adaptation of a short story by Katherine Mansfield entitled “Dill Pickle”. Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand feminist writer who lived most of her life in London, UK. The story is believed (or gossiped) to be based on a real events in Katherine’s life. Katherine was bi-sexual at the opposition of her family, and led bohemian, emancipated life, befriending Virginia Wolf and other artists of the era. Shortly after writing the “Dill Pickle” story, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and died in 1923, before completing her first novel. Nevertheless, she is considered the most prominent New Zealand’s author and a master of short stories.
Vera’s story happens within a wider context of the social structures that determined male-female relations of the 1920s. It’s Robert who achieves financial success and fulfills the dreams of traveling. It’s Vera who, apparently, started as a member of an affluent society but ends up struggling financially. It is the man who fulfills his dreams, and the woman who must give up on hers.

“Vera” project consists of five media elements:
1. A fourteen minutes short film, shot and edited in a traditional, 2D format
2. An eighteen minutes non-interactive 360 video
3. A twenty minutes radio drama
4. A volumetric/holographic immersive film
5. A virtual reality installation experience in which the viewer can roam inside the reconstructed film set, interacting with the props from the film and discovering details that enrich the story

Virtual Reality Version - "Dill Pickle"

An interactive theater experience in virtual reality

Publications:

  1. Krzysztof Pietroszek, Manuel Rebol, and Becky Lake. 2022. The Meeting: Volumetric Participatory theatre Play in Mixed Reality. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 330–332. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563935
  2. Krzysztof Pietroszek, Manuel Rebol, and Becky Lake. 2022. Dill Pickle: Interactive Theatre Play in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 51, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3562939.3565678
  3. Krzysztof Pietroszek. 2020. “Vera” – Crossing the Fourth Wall. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3383178
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