Eternal Spring VR

Eternal Spring VR

Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc. · 2024 · Casual, Visual Novel, Exploration, VR, Political

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About Eternal Spring VR

“ETERNAL SPRING (長春) VR” is an animated virtual reality documentary that brings us inside the world of a real-life survivor of religious persecution in China.

This immersive, 360 accompaniment to the feature film Eternal Spring (Hot Docs winner and Canada’s official 2023 Oscar® submission) features original recorded testimony and vivid artwork from acclaimed Chinese illustrator Daxiong (Star Wars, Justice League comics), brought to life in animation. A custom soundscape enhances the immersion when experienced with the Woojer haptic vest (optional).

WALK A MILE IN SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES
Put yourself in the shoes of someone facing religious persecution in China. In mid-nineties northeast China, Jin Xuezhe is drawn to the slow-moving exercises of the Buddhist Falun Gong discipline, whose early morning meditators fill the parks of his hometown, Changchun. When the communist regime bans the popular practice in 1999, Jin is unwilling to sit by as disinformation in the state media maligns his faith and community. Tragically, however, speaking out against the growing propaganda and disappearances brings the risk of arrest, and worse.

This 12-minute interactive documentary combines live-action video and original recorded testimony with animated recreations brought to life from the drawings of acclaimed comic book artist Daxiong (Star Wars, Justice League), who, like Jin, was forced to flee Changchun to escape persecution.

This interactive VR film features a custom soundscape to trigger haptic sensations delivered through the new Woojer Vest (optional), which heightens the experience as cops arrest you on the street for handing out leaflets, and you get to feel the heart-pounding tension of a police interrogation in China.

ETERNAL SPRING (長春) VR works as a standalone experience, while also adding a new dimension to the animated documentary feature ETERNAL SPRING (長春), which was Canada’s official submission to the 2023 Academy Awards® for Best International Feature Film. Eternal Spring has screened in 86 film festivals on six continents, inside multiple national parliaments, and earned 26 awards and another 25 nominations. (See the film now on VICE, CBC, Arte, and others–visit Eternal Spring Film site for more information.)

USER WARNING If you suffer from heart conditions, have experienced related trauma, or are severely affected by real-world traumatic events, you may wish to speak first with your medical professional before engaging in this experience.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players criticize this title on multiple fronts: many argue it's not actually a game but rather a non-interactive art experience or documentary presentation that doesn't belong on Steam, and those expecting gameplay find the mechanics naive and boring. Technical issues plague the experience, with reports of launch failures on Quest 3 and widespread complaints about poor graphics, harsh audio, and overall low production quality that fails to deliver engaging entertainment.

Recommended Aug 12, 2024
8 found this helpful
Not recommended May 16, 2024
Interesting. If you are willing to use your brain a little, you will find how absurd the data on this WEB (faluninfo.net) . Since 2000, the record of organ transplantation in China has not yet reached 200000 cases. Wherever you pass by, there must be traces. If this WEB data is true, it means that almost all transplanted organs from 2000 to 2010 came from Falun Gong believers. Or in another case, these tens of thousands of transplants are not included in official records. But it’s also unbelievable. Organ transplant surgery requires very high equipment, and qualified medical institutions and doctors are limited. The records and files of these hospitals and doctors are well documented. There will be no more than 100 hospitals and no more than 1,000 teams of surgeons (between 2000 and 2010). If there are 10,000 unrecorded transplant surgeries a year, each hospital will be responsible for 100 transplants a year, one every three days on average. Each team undertakes ten sessions per year, averaging once per month. There may be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people with knowledge involved, and hundreds of thousands of device usage logs and medical logs must be modif…
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 3, 2024
Not only the visual but structure, music, designation, quality are horrible. I’m disappointed to see the terrible and disgusting graphics. The BGMs are harsh and nauseating. The mechanism of this game is naive and boring, almost making me fall asleep. And the plot so fake that it is meaningless to know the real situation. Generally it is the worst game I’ve ever played.
3 found this helpful
Recommended May 31, 2024
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Apr 18, 2026
Does not launch on Quest 3.
Not recommended Mar 10, 2026
"Eternal Spring VR" is not a game. Games require actual gamelike interaction and gameplay loops, which are missing from this "art experience". Rather than being a game, "Eternal Spring VR" is a software application that showcases a low-quality art exhibition. This Youtube video covers the unfortunate topic of religious and political prosecution in China, and while there's no doubt this is going on, the problem is not going to be fixed by polluting Steam with non-game political garbage where it's just going to be ignored by gamerbros. Political messaging is only useful if it's somewhere people will see it... this is not only a misguided waste of time from the filmmakers, but also harmful to Steam because it's just polluting the place. We see this non-game trash on Steam when film school dropouts are hungry for any kind of validation (and they don't get any from formal art circles), so they dump their short film on Steam since no one views their junk on Youtube. Steam used to have a video section, but it's deprecated and essentially shut down, so failed filmmakers just attempt to exploit the Steam games section instead. Why is this helpful for gamers? It isn't. For those unawa…

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