The Deep Field
A site-specific, immersive VR experience, combining otherworldly visual art, digital sculpture, sound design, music and video, all within a custom world, mapped 1:1 with the exhibition space — a field in Vermont.
The piece was developed in Unity over the course of 2 months and displayed on Meta Quest 2 Headsets on-site, in the actual field, during the FireFly Arts Festival in July of 2023.
Welcome to the Deep Field
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Mapping The Default World
Satelite images and photos taken on site were combined with elevation data from the U.S. National Geographic Survey to create a virtual landscape as the backdrop for the piece.
Flora, fauna, site-specific structures and other landmarks were re-created symbolically to create a simultaneous sense of place and of otherworldliness.
Spatial audio, lighting effects, and a teleportation and grasp-interaction system — all created in Unity — further pushed the bounds of immersion for visitors to The Deep Field -
Crafting a New Reality
With The Deep Field, I wanted to create an alternate reality “one layer below” the already-surreal Firefly Arts Festival; an event brimming with creativity, interactive art and curious experience-seekers.
I also wanted to create a place to exhibit digital artefacts — visual art, video and animation, music and digital sculpture — alongside the many physical artworks that exist on the material plane at Firefly.
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