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I was contacted by Gabrielle Jenks, Director of Abandon Normal Devices<\/a>, in May 17′, about creating a VR experience for their biennial festival, which took place in September 17′ in Castleton, a village inside Derbyshire Peak District National Park of UK, with tons of caves! Together with Planeta, we created something crazy, unusual, and definitely push the boundaries of VR.<\/p>\n

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Concept<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inspired by the cave theme, I had an idea to transform normal people into cave dwellers. From an ordinary, clean, constraint person, to a bizarre, messy, loose wilder who acts freely! I imagine it’s the process of traversing the underground together, doing weird things together, that make the bounds between participants and shape whom they become.<\/p>\n

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So, we settled down the idea to transform participants as cave dwellers, but what weird behavior can we ask the participants to do?<\/p>\n

Around that time, I was developing a Chewing Device for Google Cardboard for my Daily Life VR Ch. 2 Eat (see my instructables<\/a> here!). Chewing Device is an analog mechanism to bring in the “chewing data” of real life, in order to reenact the chewing behavior in virtual world. Mouth<\/strong> apparently can do a lot of things, what if besides eating, it can also dig the ground<\/em>? The image of people “chewing at the floor” together is so ridiculous that we all agree it is something worth of experiment.<\/p>\n

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Analog chewing device in action with real food!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Process: Interaction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since we are bring in the chewing data, we need to use the most of the mouth \/ jaw movement<\/strong><\/em>. First of all, mouth is the only way and mean to travel down the ground, literally open & close mouth close to the floor, a.k.a. digging the ground.<\/p>\n