An immersive multiplayer cinematic simulation of the phenomenon defined by space philosopher **Frank White** in his work entitled "**The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution**". In this space simulation we take the position of humankind as we try to understand the precious value of our planet and how can we help Earth and ourselves survive in a better way.

Video link

https://youtu.be/HfjgsX14rLE

  
The project was awarded the Honorable Mentions at the **Awareness Film Festiva**l in Los Angeles.

Created by ShuShuVR and Niko Lang in collaboration Frank White and TRIPP.

Credits :

Design concept by VRium Creative Team : ShuShuVR & Niko Lang

Produced by Nanea Reeves and TRIPP

Sound Design by David Starfire

Narrator : space philosopher Frank White

VR Stream Filmmaker : Carlos Austin

Overview Effect Experience | VR

**ArtSpaceVR Exhibition Centre presents : THE POPOVY SISTERS**

  
ArtSpaceVR Exhibition Centre is designed to present the art of extraordinary artists from all around the world. Our experienced creative team offers innovative technologies and a special design for each art event. ArtSpaceVR goal is to allow arts institutions and creators to elevate their artworks and present them in a new light in the Metaverse.

  
Exhibition : **The Popovy Sisters** \- an innovative space design and a special collection of Fine-Art-Dolls.

  
**Award**: Raindance Immersive 2021 Discovery Award

ArtSpaceVR : The Popovy Sisters

**NYMPHS - A VR REQUIEM : A theatrical art-installation performed by ACTROIDS. An ode to those of who have experienced true love. Here they become Nymphs in an amorous yet lethal underwater dream. The performance is a poetic study for the VR stage examining the insanity and beauty of love.**

  
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Work in Progress

https://youtu.be/eYG9sKq-gTI

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Nymphs is a work of art that dissolves the boundary between sublime love and clinical delirium.

A true theatrical piece must unveil the naked truth, reveal living beauty, become an ode to life. In Nymphs, I craft a requiem - a sacred theatre piece for victims of „lethal love“, portrayed as monumental art-dolls. I call them Nymphs. These art dolls possess a certain magic, as if they carry within them the distant echo of ancient, majestic goddesses - ethereal beings, pure and transcendent, resurrected by the force of true love.

To all those wondrous souls who transcended death through love - I devote this piece.

The dramaturgical form unfolds as a collage of audio‑visual tableaux, where the drama evokes powerful visual poetry rather than a linear narrative.

The play is a post-mortem elegy for the stage, oscillating between clinical despair and mystical transcendence. The piece performs an AUTOPSY OF THE PSYCHE - a lyrical study of love's grandeur and its descent into madness. On one hand, it realigns and humanises mythological heroes by presenting them as true beings - naked, shattered, mad. On the other hand, it poses a philosophical concept: some humans sense so deeply that they have no place on earth - they deserve glorification; by embracing death, they transcend it.

Should we see these beings as tragic exhibits of pathological mental disorder? Or ought we revere them as divine saints of sorrow - deified lovers whose death is a sublime metamorphosis?

The viewer traverses two parallel dimensions: the Dramatic Reality - a stark, clinical space echoing the Theatrum Anatomicum, where love's remnants are laid bare upon the marble of inquiry; the other dimension descents into the Realm of Dreams - a pictorial fantasy inspired by ancient myths and fairy tales, dreamlike in serenity and devastating in beauty. Here, water-nymphs drift through the abyss, “far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, as clear as crystal…”.

In this Virtual Reality REQUIEM, beauty and sorrow entwine in sublime embrace - and love overcomes death.

Nymphs is a Virtual Reality theatrical experience, performed by Actroids (programmed, monumental fine-art-dolls). The artwork aims to stand as a visionary embodiment of Edward Gordon Craig’s "Über-Marionette" manifesto of 1907, reimagined through the lens of 21st-century technology.

The project is currently under development. It is intended to be conceived, produced, and presented at VRium ArtSpace - a dedicated VR performing-arts center available as a standalone app.”

The project was awarded Best Virtual Reality Short at the monthly Cannes Film Festival competition and the Discovery Award at Raindance Immersive Festival.

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Produced by VRium Creative Team and VenusSX

Narrative, Art Direction & Graphic Design : ShuShuVR

Immersive 3D animation & Shaders Art : Niko Lang

Artistic collaboration : The Popovy Sisters

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