Video Overview:
Visual design:
For the emotional satiric state that entails realisation of this COVID madness I chose to design a black tunnel with bright off-color lavender smokes on the sides, a color that is linked to satire (Pedge, 2019), and turquoise gemstone color at the end of the tunnel, a color that is linked to self-realization (Bourn, 2016). At the end of the tunnel lies a picture that “mocks” the coronavirus crisis. The user must navigate till the end of the tunnel in order to reach the final scene. The ground is cement/metallic-looking to resemble that of a hard ground.
The hands are stylistically in line with the color scheme and theme of the environment as the look metallic.. The proportions of the environment are close to a 1:1 realistic scale to enhance the sense of being grounded. Lastly, the navigation is the average continuous movement speed in VR.
Sound Design:
Layers:
- General Room Tone: base noise
- TV fake broadcast clip: The theme of environment 3 is satire and realisation. For that reason I downloaded from Epidemic Sound a fictitious News Broadcast that announced the spread of a new virus that creates zombies. The audio clip is called “News Broadcast TV 2” by Epidemic Sound.
- Constant spray noise of some antibacterial cleaning spray
Haptic Feedback:
The only interactable object in this scene is the portal which is triggered by hovering, thus, the only haptic feedback needed is an “on hover enter” feedback.
- On hover enter:
- Haptic Intensity: 1.0
- Duration: 0.1