A system for experiencing scenes from folklore in XR. Imagery of a tale is layered onto old maps of the place where it was told, so that the visitor learns the tale bodily by sensing a presence in the dark. At venues it is shown both as a projection and through a VR headset (Meta Quest 3).
The first subject is the “Mujina” of Kii-no-kuni-zaka in Akasaka, Tokyo — the tale, also told by Lafcadio Hearn in Kwaidan, of a traveller who speaks to a weeping woman on a night road and finds she has no face. Exhibited together with the apparatus and the yōkai map at TSUKUBA CONNÉCT, TOKYO NODE XR HACKATHON, XR Meetup Aichi, and XR Kaigi.
Project BAKEBAKE