THE LAO CHAPTERS – RILAO PROJECT

Role: Writer, Designer

Year: 2014

Virtual Reality Interactive Video Project (Oculus Rift)

The Lao Chapters is a virtual reality experience created as part of Award-Winning Production Designer Alec McDowell’s 5D Institute world-building project which sought to design the fictional island of Rilao. Wearing an Oculus Rift the user is guided to a meditative dreamscape under the island’s mythological Tree of Rilao. By looking at different floating orbs under the tree The user can play a series of gaze-activated video segments to watch stories of the founding of the nation of Rilao. I wrote the scripts and iterated multiple drafts based on client feedback.

The project was showcased at the 5D Institute’s Science of Fiction conference in 2014.

Press: KCUR Interview, USC News

The Lao Chapters was created with the support of the following team: Bryan Edelman, Eric Adrian Marshall, Chris Cain.