Using VR and haptic vests to transport users to a sweaty club in 1980s Britain, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is so realistic that you might need a lie down afterwardsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI’m not the kind of person who you’d normally find at an illegal rave at a regular raving time, let alone 9am on a Wednesday.
But that’s where I found myself this week – virtually, anyway: with a haptic vest strapped on to my back, a controller in each hand and a virtual reality headset covering my eyes, I’m transported back to 1989, hooning through the suburbs with my friends to find a secret dancefloor.Darren Emerson’s award-winning interactive VR film, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats, tracks the acid-house movement and rave scene in Coventry, UK.
It’s wholly transportive – I forget that I’m actually standing in the…
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