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Lost City of Mer

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SA '19: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 XR

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3355355.3361897

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Lost City of Mer is a virtual reality (VR) game experience combined with a smartphone app that immerses players in a fantasy undersea civilization devastated by ecological disaster caused by global warning. The project aims to harness the immersive and empathetic potential of VR to address climate change and create a sense of urgency in the player with regard to their personal carbon footprint.

Players are invited to help rebuild the lost world of Mer and its devastated ecosystem in VR by re-establishing its unique flora and fauna, and fighting ongoing dangers and threats, with the aim of bringing back to life its mysterious Mer-people inhabitants. Guided by a solitary seal spirit named Athina – the last of its kind in a dying ocean – players try to save the Mer population from extinction. They tend to secret gardens of coral threatened by pollution, create habitats for Mer-people, and explore the destroyed civilization, in the process learning how their real-world actions impact the world around them.

The project was developed with the input of environmental scientists from Harvard University and Dartmouth College. The experience is based on real science, but told through fantasy, as it draws on the cross-cultural myth of the mermaid to appeal to people across the globe.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCID59865.2023.00033

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DOI:10.1145/3355355

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Cosio LBuruk OFernández Galeote DBosman IHamari J(2023)Virtual and Augmented Reality for Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic ReviewProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581147(1-23)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
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Zhai SKwok LYao CYing F(2023)The Design of Coral Protection Game Based on Sustainability Learning Model2023 16th International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Design (ISCID)10.1109/ISCID59865.2023.00033(109-113)Online publication date: 16-Dec-2023
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