Point of view (POV) is a first person interactive wall projection installation, in which the user can experience the world around them through three perspectives. The perspectives being - 1. Land point of view through a dog, 2. Aerial point of view through a bird and 3. Underwater point of view through a fish. The view of the projections with respect to the three perspectives are shown below.
Dog's Point of View
Bird's Point of View
Fish's Point of View
The main concept was for the people to go through each of these immersive perspectives of the world and experience the positive & negative aspects embedded into its environment due to human in-habitation. The key goal here was for the people to reflect upon one's actions through the perspective of other living beings in this world.
The creation of this interactive installation involved the combined action of the following sections shown in the figure below, which starts from scripting the scenarios and ends with the final installation. The three sections namely the communication design, interaction design and product design of the installation got integrated over a period of 8 months, shown by the transition from yellow to green lines in the figure below.
My contribution towards this project was majorly on interaction design section, but also was part of scripting & story-boarding the environments, and integrating the assets & wooden model controllers with the Unity-3D game engine, according to the storyboard. This process involved programming in Unity using C# language. Below are some screenshots of scripts, storyboards and Unity environment which I had worked on.
Script
Storyboard
Unity 3D - C# coding
Unity 3D - Dog's POV
The following are few pictures of this interactive installation at National Gallery of Modern Arts, Mumbai.
3 POV projections on the wall
Paola Antonelli, Chief guest from MoMA, trying out Dog POV
