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''Echolocation is becoming Echolocation is when noise briefly constructs the world visually around you before plunging you back into darkness.


''As a navigation method in immersive games, echolocation visualises how sound constructs the world visually around the player before plunging them back into darkness.''


Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals. Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. They use these echoes to locate and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation and for foraging (or hunting) in various environments.


Echolocating animals include some mammals and a few birds; most notably microchiropteran bats and odontocetes (toothed whales and dolphins), but also in simpler form in other groups such as shrews, one genus of megachiropteran bats (Rousettus) and two cave dwelling bird groups, the so-called cave swiftlets in the genus Aerodramus (formerly Collocalia) and the unrelated Oilbird Steatornis caripensis.[1]
'''Origins'''


Real world animals use echolocation to navigate the world, even in darkness, by emitting sounds and listening to the echoes that return from objects near them.
It has been used as a navigation mechanic in a number of video games. In media such as VR, it is an effective way of immersing the user in an alien form of perception, while navigating a virtual space.




TITLES USING ECHOLOCATION AS NAVIGATION METHOD
'''Immersive works titles using Echolocation'''
Are we seeing Echolocation emerge as a major piece of VR narrative grammar?
* First came the poetic "Notes on Blindness" (see Cecilie Levy's Wiki entry on it, here: http://cefima.org/wiki/Notes_on_Blindness )
* Now comes "Blind" (see article below): "A narrative-driven psychological thriller that isn’t designed so much to scare as it is puzzle."
* There's a horror game: "Stifled", https://uploadvr.com/hands-on-stifled-listen/
* And Introversion Software has teased a VR Scanner Sombre https://uploadvr.com/beautiful-adventure-scanner-sombre-wi…/
PS: Echolocation is when noise briefly constructs the world visually around you before plunging you back into darkness.


Traditional video games
''Notes on Blindness'' http://cefima.org/wiki/Notes_on_Blindness
https://killscreen.com/articles/perception-vows-enhance-your-vision-using-echolocation/
 
https://killscreen.com/articles/bat-simulator-realizes-echolocation-in-tron-like-neon/
''Blind'', "A narrative-driven psychological thriller that isn’t designed so much to scare as it is puzzle." https://www.vrfocus.com/2018/08/preview-blind-finds-the-right-path-in-the-darkness/
 
''Stifled'' https://uploadvr.com/hands-on-stifled-listen/
 
'' Scanner Sombre https://uploadvr.com/beautiful-adventure-scanner-sombre-wi…/
 
 
 
'''Traditional video games using Echolocation'''
 
Perception https://killscreen.com/articles/perception-vows-enhance-your-vision-using-echolocation/
 
Bat Simmulator https://killscreen.com/articles/bat-simulator-realizes-echolocation-in-tron-like-neon/
 
Aliens vs Predator 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_2
 
The Last of Us

Latest revision as of 06:26, 17 August 2018


As a navigation method in immersive games, echolocation visualises how sound constructs the world visually around the player before plunging them back into darkness.


Origins

Real world animals use echolocation to navigate the world, even in darkness, by emitting sounds and listening to the echoes that return from objects near them. It has been used as a navigation mechanic in a number of video games. In media such as VR, it is an effective way of immersing the user in an alien form of perception, while navigating a virtual space.


Immersive works titles using Echolocation

Notes on Blindness http://cefima.org/wiki/Notes_on_Blindness

Blind, "A narrative-driven psychological thriller that isn’t designed so much to scare as it is puzzle." https://www.vrfocus.com/2018/08/preview-blind-finds-the-right-path-in-the-darkness/

Stifled https://uploadvr.com/hands-on-stifled-listen/

Scanner Sombre https://uploadvr.com/beautiful-adventure-scanner-sombre-wi…/


Traditional video games using Echolocation

Perception https://killscreen.com/articles/perception-vows-enhance-your-vision-using-echolocation/

Bat Simmulator https://killscreen.com/articles/bat-simulator-realizes-echolocation-in-tron-like-neon/

Aliens vs Predator 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_2

The Last of Us

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