Dafen Oil Painting Village: An Immersive Reality
Jeremy Kirshbaum · 2018 · Free to Play, Indie, Casual, Simulation, VR
PC
Mixed65% · 17 📉 Recent reviews down 55%
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About Dafen Oil Painting Village: An Immersive Reality
Dafen Oil Painting Village is a little like a factory, a little like a town, and a little like an open air art gallery. Located in the southern China city of Shenzhen, it is a collective of 20,000 artists and entrepreneurs. They sell millions of paintings piecewise and at scale throughout the world, totaling 56% of all commercial art in Europe and the Untied States, according to official sources. They achieve economies of scale emergently, with little reliance on central coordination.
In early 2017, Jeremy Kirshbaum spent weeks in Dafen conducting interviews and understanding its hidden inter-connections. Using an Occipital Structure sensor, he collected real-world models of what he saw, along with photos and videos, both flat and 360.
He has used these to create an experimental prototype to immerse the experiencer in the feeling of Shenzhen. It is neither a replication of reality, nor a fantasy, but something between and beyond…an immersive reality. As well as an immersion in a real place, it is a statement about the interaction of old and new media, information-rich research environments, and the tension between scientific instruments and artistic media.
This early stage prototype was made with the Emerging Media Lab at Institute for the Future, and Alexander Goldman at SiverVR. It is deliberately unpolished, so that the experiencer can see the way that the collage fits together, and consider the implications that this has for the future of media and simulation.
Thanks also to Imisi3d in Lagos, Nigeria for their support during the development process.
In early 2017, Jeremy Kirshbaum spent weeks in Dafen conducting interviews and understanding its hidden inter-connections. Using an Occipital Structure sensor, he collected real-world models of what he saw, along with photos and videos, both flat and 360.
He has used these to create an experimental prototype to immerse the experiencer in the feeling of Shenzhen. It is neither a replication of reality, nor a fantasy, but something between and beyond…an immersive reality. As well as an immersion in a real place, it is a statement about the interaction of old and new media, information-rich research environments, and the tension between scientific instruments and artistic media.
This early stage prototype was made with the Emerging Media Lab at Institute for the Future, and Alexander Goldman at SiverVR. It is deliberately unpolished, so that the experiencer can see the way that the collage fits together, and consider the implications that this has for the future of media and simulation.
Thanks also to Imisi3d in Lagos, Nigeria for their support during the development process.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Dafen Oil Painting Village: An Immersive Reality is a free VR experience. It worked on my HTC Vive system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok, was understandable. This is a very small interest documentary title, about the Dafen Oil Painting Neighborhood in Shenzhen, China. The narration was in English. Has 360 videos also. CONS: Didn't work with Index controllers, missing some buttons. Try it, only if you interested in Art or travel to China.4 found this helpful
Dafen Oil Painting Village: An Immersive Reality is not a game. It's a VR exclusive "documentary", or alternatively I guess you could describe it as a software demo for a "virtual exploration" of some hippy who went on a trip to Dafen once and apparently that's all you need to do to become a game developer. If only such an experience could inform wanna be film students on what video games are, because some people apparently don't know. This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section of Steam instead of the "Software" section. This is a common mistake for developers who are new to Steam, or don't understand the difference between games and software which isn't a game. It's also something that is commonly done by failed artists who, frustrated by the restraining orders taken out by local art galleries, must resort to paying $100 to self publish their exhibitions on Steam because nobody else wanted them. Here's a link for the [url=https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithPublishing?issueid=925]process to publish Software which isn't a game[/url] on Steam. It's unfortunate the developers chose not to read and follow this process. Publishing things which aren't …3 found this helpful
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Игра «Dafen Oil Painting Village: An Immersive Reality» — это увлекательное погружение в мир масляной живописи через виртуальную реальность. Графика на высоте: каждый кистевой взмах и текстура холста ощущаются реалистично. Геймплей прост и интуитивен, идеален для новичков и художников. Возможность создавать картины в режиме VR добавляет глубины, а разнообразие инструментов и цветов — вдохновения. Минус — ограниченное количество уроков и сюжетных элементов. Для любителей искусства и VR-опыта — отличный выбор.
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