{"id":968,"date":"2016-05-08T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T02:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/breathe-in\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:38:45","slug":"breathe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/breathe-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathe In"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Michael Weber<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Breathe In&rdquo; is a fictional story told in VR that attempts to evoke a feeling in the virtual world powerful enough to be remembered in the real world. It hopes to explore whether a narrative told in virtual reality can be remembered as personal experience.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>&ldquo;Breathe In&rdquo; takes the principles of storytelling and adapts them to VR, exploring whether narnrative&rsquo;s ability to create emotional response can be magnified through a more immersive medium. Personal experience generates the strongest emotions, and VR may possess the power to tell stories that offer something closer to personal experience.<br \/>\nThe story centers around Alex, a new father grappling with boredom. When he learns he can breathe underwater, he begins secretly escaping into an underwater world for longer and longer. On the night of his daughter&rsquo;s first birthday, he makes a choice with tragic consequences.<br \/>\nMy goal is for viewers to feel as if they themselves experienced Alex&rsquo;s story, and to interpret and internalize his fate.<\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Thesis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Weber &ldquo;Breathe In&rdquo; is a fictional story told in VR that attempts to evoke a feeling in the virtual world powerful enough to be remembered in the real world. It hopes to explore whether a narrative told in virtual reality can be remembered as personal experience. Description &ldquo;Breathe In&rdquo; takes the principles of storytelling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/breathe-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breathe In<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17270,415,462,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-weber","category-nancy-hechinger","category-projects","category-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}