Hall Of Shame

Between the drought of dead fish, and the flood houses, was a long pathway without any content to keep the viewers attention. I've used this pathway space to create what I call the "Hall of Shame". This is a open hallway, featuring climate deniers, or people who have funded climate denial groups. Some may surprise you, such as the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai. He isn't claimed to be a climate denier. However according to the Guardian, Google have been funding climate denial groups. Other people in the Hall of Shame feature recognisable world leaders, the biggest climate denial funders, and climate denial journalists. The photographs of these individuals have been linked to there original source at the bottom of this page.

Path Changes

I wanted to make some adjustments to the path in the virtual world. For example as you come to the drought of dead fish, I've moved the path so that at the beginning, you can see the water that the rubbish bag is blocking more clearly, and you are able to come closer to the dead fish than you could before.

Greta Thunberg

At the beginning of this journey, we started with the Hieronymus Bosch painting called "The Garden of Earthly Delights". This is the earliest painting or artwork I can find that references to man made destruction and how humans can impact the planet. Today in 2019, the biggest story in the climate world is how a 16 year old from Sweden, Greta Thunberg, has caused a mass movement for climate advocacy across the world. This young Swedish girl, only began campaigning outside her countries parliament on Fridays by striking from school. This is the latest push for climate awareness in 2019. This is the end of the path, as it is to signify today.

Greta Thunberg

I wanted to use this photograph of Greta and her climate sign to make the viewer feel that they are apart of the problem. The start would be by having a big "You" as the beginning of the signs sentence. The sign clearly saying to go away and to take a good look at yourself in the mirror. From here I will exhibit a mirror on a wall with this Virtual Reality project, so that once you take the headset off, you can actually take a good look at yourself in the mirror, as Greta has told you do in my VR world. I wanted the final sign to be large as the Bosch painting was, to signify further that this is the end of your virtual experience. I've also placed an audio source around the painting, so you can hear a segment of Greta's speech from the United Nations Climate Summit in 2019.

Collider Blocks

Of course I wanted the user to specifically stay on the path and to follow it. In order to stop people from diverting onto the grass and anywhere as they wish, I set up objects that are called "Box Colliders" within the Unity software. This means that the player cannot go behind the green boxed lines that you see below. They have to specifically follow the path as that is the purpose of the VR experience,

References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok

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https://scienceoferadication.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kevin-Murphy-headshot-for-website.jpg

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