VOLUNTEERS WEARING XR HEADSETS AT THE "PASSING ELECTRICAL STORMS" IN MELBOURNE. IMAGE: INSTAGRAM/@NASITRA
A "death simulator" has been created that lets users experience what happens after they die.
Artist Shaun Gladwell introduced this idea at his "Passing Electrical Storms" show at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
The volunteers lie on a replica hospital bed wearing the XR headset and are given cardiac arrest.
- They face scenarios wherein the doctors try to resurrect them, but they slowly slip into mortality and transcend this world.
- People who returned from the XR-induced death shared they remembered seeing the light at the end of a tunnel and hearing the voices of their loved ones and those in hell.
- The volunteers could quit at any time if the experience became too overwhelming.
