Now! A Realities Odyssey

“Now! A Realities Odyssey” is a cross-reality exit game that combines model making, VR and AR: a lovingly detailed miniature model of a space shuttle serves as the central game space. Using photogrammetry, it was transferred into virtual reality and expanded into an interactive space players can walk through with a VR headset. One person from the group is sent on the mission, while the others hold a tablet over the model to locate them inside it and follow their interactions from the outside. To find out what happened aboard the abandoned shuttle, players have to solve puzzles together by finding and combining clues across all three game levels. The ship’s story unfolds as a collaborative game, built on communication across the different layers of reality. It thrives on the contrasts between reality and mimesis, materiality and digitality, miniature and life-size, and challenges players to shift between perspectives, dimensions and realities.