Echoes

VR Narrative Experience

Platform: PC/Oculus Quest 2

Echoes is a VR narrative experience where you are asked to play hide and seek with a girl alone at home, who doesn’t seem to fully perceive your existence. As you hide, she claims that she finds you—even when you are still inside the closet as the player body.

This work explores themes of imaginary friend, companionship, and uses digital avatars, embodiment, and performance elements in VR to touch on the fragile nature of presence, both physically and digitally.

Solo project, 2 months (2024)

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Tools
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Unity (C#)
Steam VR
Blender
Photoshop

Creative Director
Designer
Programmer
3D Artist & Animator

The character design comes from my handmade stop-motion puppet featured in the short film, The Wing. I hope to create a digital avatar for her for my story in this VR experience.

Character Design

All captures are from real-time VR

Visual Outcome

Texture in Substance Painter

Rigging & Animation in Blender

Level Layouts in Unity

Lighting in Unity

Credits:

Solo project by Yichen Pan
Special thanks to Suzie Liu, the voice-over actor for my character!