We Live In An Ocean Of Air

we live in an Ocean of Air

We Live In An Ocean Of Air is a virtual reality world created by Marshmallow Laser Feast. It was first exhibited in 2018 at London’s Saatchi Gallery.

The VR setup allows multiple people to simultaneously explore a futuristic sequoia forest that evolves throughout the experience. A bespoke sensing system is attached to an HTC Vive Pro virtual reality kit allowing users to sense and visualise one another as well as their own breath and heartbeat.

For this piece, Kai Lab worked in collaboration with Artists & Engineers to develop electronics to achieve real-time breath and heart rate monitoring. The data collected from this bespoke system is fed back into a generative graphics engine to affect various elements of the virtual environment (e.g. exhaling generates a cloud of virtual particles which the audience are able to see and interact with).