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Adam May on ocean health
Adam May
Two thousand pieces of microplastic per litre: Adam on the number behind Drop in the Ocean.
Conservation International / Vision3 · 2019
Drop In The Ocean
Social VR for four people at once, shrunk to two inches tall on the back of a jellyfish. Created by Adam May, Chris Campkin and Chris Parks with Conservation International; an official selection of Tribeca 2019.
What it was
Drop in the Ocean is a ten-minute social VR piece. Shrunk to about two inches tall, participants hitch a ride on a jellyfish through the deep, meeting the creatures that live there and the plastic pollution crisis from the viewpoint of sea life. Then up to four of them team up to swipe away the plastic debris around them, and leave with a sense of what threatens the ocean and of their part in the answer.
The piece draws on the photographic archive of Peter Parks, the Academy Award-winning micro-photographer, and is narrated by Philippe and Ashlan Cousteau, with music by Gold Panda and design by Elliott Round. Adam May, Chris Campkin and Chris Parks created it to share this underwater world, and what is at stake in it, with people who might never otherwise see it. It follows Vision3's 2018 Tribeca Immersive project My Africa: Elephant Keeper, also made with Conservation International, and was Conservation International's fourth virtual reality project and its first social VR piece.
Technical approach
A multiuser, free-movement social VR piece with body tracking, presented in a purpose-built installation created by New York's Thinc Design.
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Vision3 immersive ocean work
A minute of the ocean work: Drop in the Ocean, Valens Reef and Critical Distance.
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