Interact with the Virtual Worlds of Teengirl Fantasy's New EP
4REAL, the digital agency composed of Slava and Analisa Teachworth, have created four virtual reality experiences to accompany Teengirl Fantasy's new EP.
To coincide with the release of Teengirl Fantasy's new EP, THERMAL, out today on Break World Records, the digital agency 4REALâcomposed of musician/hacker Slava and artist Analisa Teachworthâbuilt four interactive virtual realities that they paired with each of the EP's four tracks.
The THERMAL website, which went live today, runs on WebGL, a web-based 3D graphics technology makes 4REAL's four virtual worlds interactive. This allowed Slava and Teachworth to move the concept of the music video beyond traditional passive viewing, and towards a more active engagement with sound and vision.
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âThe viewers can shape the environments by adjusting camera angles, manipulating objects and even sound,â 4REAL said.
The first virtual world, âCavescape,â features an evolving, amorphous blob suspended in the middle of neon-lit room. Viewers can move around the blob before passing into the virtual substance, and then through a multicolored wormhole inhabited by flying LCD screens and other objects.
The track â7:30â gets what looks like a floating, self-assembling nanotechnological machine, which functions as a portal through which viewers can pass into various terrestrial and submarine environments. What's great about this virtual experience is that changing one's perspective also makes the world like a DJ's mixing board, allowing users to slow down, pause, and warp the recording.After a time, this virtual world uses GPS tracking to present what looks like a Google Street View of the user's location onto which the animated machine is mapped. As for the rest of the experiences, well, users will have to see for themselves. We don't want to spoil all of the fun.
âAs technologies like WebGL and Web Audio become more ubiquitous we donât have to experience the internet as though we are standing in front of a wall,â 4REAL told me. âThere is an opportunity to re-envision the web as a rich dynamic responsive world. With this in mind, 4REAL creates video-game-like worlds that reference pop culture artifacts such as Dan Flavinâs neons (âCavescapeâ) or a scene from Lost Highway (âU Touch Meâ).â
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