Hamari Duniya
Hamari Duniya is a VR experience that uses puppetry to express the dilemmas and struggles of early and child marriage. Our primary audience is Rural India and Platform is Mobile VR for easy distribution. It is to aid social workers to bring about awareness at the grass root level. we used puppetry a familiar medium with VR for solitary and empathetic experience so people while experiencing can cogitate over the matter and can empathize and then choose the future of the protagonist. Our team had a healthy mix of skill-set, Ashish a game developer, Baaraan a visual artist, Kadambari New media and Interaction Designer and Smit Animator and film director. Many organizations have shown their interest and support to name a few AJWS, Point of view and Sadhbhavna trust.
Why VR puppetry
Why VR?
- Empathetic personal experience.
- Familiar medium in rural India.
- Controlled by threads and hands to represent lack of autonomy.
- Taking city’s tech to village.
- Social workers can easily disseminate the knowledge.
- Experience that initiates a dialogue.
Content of experience
Bouquet of stories from different communities addressing:
- Early marriage
- Sexuality and Gender
- Caste-Class politics
- Women Health
- Stories from perspectives of everyone in the typical rural family
SONAl’s STORY
SONAL represents a coming of age rural girl who is questioning her own early marriage fate. Through what the character says and does, and what other characters say about her, we realize that she is:
- in wonderment and awe about the world through eduaction.
- has aspirations to become like her role model, her teacher.
- is inspired and motivated to do something good in her life.
- knows she can change her fate by becoming empowered by education.
Prototype in Unity
Team
Made as a part of VR guild hosted by QuickSand
- Ashish Dubey - VR Developer
- Baaraan Ijlal - Artist, Content Developer
- Kadambari Sahu - User Experience Designer
- Smit Shah - Animation & VR Film Maker