Platform: PC/Oculus Quest 2
VR Narrative Experience
Echoes
Echoes is a VR narrative experience where you are asked to play hide and seek with a girl alone at home, who doesn’t seem to fully perceive your existence. As you hide, she claims that she finds you—even when you are still inside the closet.
This work explores themes of imaginary friend, companionship, and uses digital avatars, embodiment, and performance elements in VR to touch on the fragile nature of presence, both physically and digitally.
Solo project, 2 months (2024)
Role
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Tools
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Unity (C#)
Steam VR
Blender
Photoshop
Creative Director
Designer
Programmer
3D Artist & Animator
Character Design
The character design comes from my handmade stop-motion puppet featured in the short film, The Wing. I hope to create a digital avatar for her for my story in this VR experience.
Visual Outcome
All captures are from real-time VR
Texture in Substance Painter
Rigging & Animation in Blender
Level Layouts in Unity
Lighting in Unity
Credits:
Solo project by Yichen Pan
Special thanks to Suzie Liu, the voice-over actor for my character!