Ideal Home
Virtual Reality Experience, Meta Quest 3, 2025
Art Director: Ruiqi Zhang, Weitong Sun
Sound Artist: Jared Duesterhaus
Quest XR Technical Support: Gu Lin, Jiaqi Yang, Yufan Yao
Script Co-Writers: Rasim Bayramov, HWIY, Xinyue, Weitong Sun, Ruiqi Zhang, etc.
Editor: Artists-trained AI (GPT-4)
Ideal Home is an extended-reality (XR) narrative project exploring how immigrant experiences and the concept of home are reshaped through emerging technologies. Immigrant writers were invited to co-create a text archive of memory and displacement. A fine-tuned GPT-4 model rewrote it into a unified script, transforming cultural symbols into something unexpected.
By embedding the script into a game engine, the project blurs oral history and generative fiction, offering an alternative mode of engagement. A ghostly AI avatar drifts through layered interfaces, landscapes, and symbols, guiding players through flickering memories and cultural echoes—co-authoring a new language of belonging with machine intelligence.
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Virtual Reality Experience, Meta Quest 3, 2025
Art Director: Ruiqi Zhang, Weitong Sun
Sound Artist: Jared Duesterhaus
Quest XR Technical Support: Gu Lin, Jiaqi Yang, Yufan Yao
Script Co-Writers: Rasim Bayramov, HWIY, Xinyue, Weitong Sun, Ruiqi Zhang, etc.
Editor: Artists-trained AI (GPT-4)
Ideal Home is an extended-reality (XR) narrative project exploring how immigrant experiences and the concept of home are reshaped through emerging technologies. Immigrant writers were invited to co-create a text archive of memory and displacement. A fine-tuned GPT-4 model rewrote it into a unified script, transforming cultural symbols into something unexpected.
By embedding the script into a game engine, the project blurs oral history and generative fiction, offering an alternative mode of engagement. A ghostly AI avatar drifts through layered interfaces, landscapes, and symbols, guiding players through flickering memories and cultural echoes—co-authoring a new language of belonging with machine intelligence.
