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

Origins

In the real world, animals use echolocation to navigate the world, even in darkness. Animals emit sounds and listen to the echoes that return from objects near them. The echoes are used to map the world around the animal.

TITLES USING ECHOLOCATION AS NAVIGATION METHOD 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 https://killscreen.com/articles/perception-vows-enhance-your-vision-using-echolocation/ https://killscreen.com/articles/bat-simulator-realizes-echolocation-in-tron-like-neon/

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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 you 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.
+'''Origins'''
+In the real world, animals use echolocation to navigate the world, even in darkness. Animals emit sounds and listen to the echoes that return from objects near them. The echoes are used to map the world around the animal.
-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]

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