Dreaming when you are awake
A detective Journey in Mixed Reality Storytelling
Bernice Lai
Project Description
“Dreaming when you are awake: A Detective Journey in Mixed Reality Storytelling” is divided into two parts: a 360 Virtual Reality animation and an Augmented Reality interactive board. It depicted dreamy scenes in order to help viewers de-stress and dream while awake, making people travel into a fictional realm by using fantasy as escapism. It combines virtual reality and augmented reality to produce a 360-degree VR animation of a dreaming tour as well as an AR detective board with slide images and animation.
Through this project, people may be able to escape reality and relax by walking around in a wonderful atmosphere in VR videos and immersing themselves in the story on the AR detective board in order to get away from the hustle and bustle of cities.
BIO
Bernice Lai is a Toronto-based animator and graphic novel artist. She considers herself a storyteller who is always looking for new techniques to narrate the stories through her art. Her passions include illustrations with Augmented Reality interaction and immersive Virtual Reality animations. She graduated from OCAD University with a bachelor's degree in fine art, in Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Animation. She is currently a Master of Fine Art candidate in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University. Her practices are centered around the realms of socially taboo and benefiting mental health.