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#1084: Provocative Spatial Audio Piece “Paradise” Attempts to Blend Too Many Genres Diluting their Impact Message about Domestic Violence


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Paradise is an immersive audio piece exploring themes of domestic violence that was an interdisciplinary collaboration between Darkfield, VR documentary filmmaker Gabo Arora of Lightshed.io and researcher and clinician Nancy Glass from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. It attempts to blend a number of different XR genres together in a provocative fashion, including elements of immersive horror to provoke emotional reactions, interactive AI to tune the experience according to gender, elements of social impact documentary to challenge pre-conceived notions for why victims of domestic violence stay within abusive relationships, some social dynamics experiments done with your intimate partner about communication and understanding, and all set within a narrative context of a social game hosted by AI therapist of the future exploring why couples stay together or fall apart. I found the end result be confusing, muddled, and a bit too experimental without coherently tying everything together in the end.
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