Working Title
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This work is intended to work on chrome browser, with optimal viewing on an andriod device.This code is designed to work ONLY on mobile devices and tablets with a gyroscope.
This work is for one of the three Virtual Reality(VR) headsets that are arranged on a plinth/table, with each of the power cables to the VR headsets coming out of a bible located in the base of the table. Each of the VR headsets contain an individual experience relating to methods of connecting to divine.
- Listen: spacial and fixed point audio with no visual
The VR headset has no visual, making the viewer blind. But there are two audio components; the fixed point audio is theta wave osilations; the spacial audio is tongues, as the participant turns their head the audios fixed point in space shifts from left to right. Giving the illusion that the audio is coming from a fixed point within the room. What this work is exploring is receiving preyer, which can be an intense experience, your role is simply to listen. What the participant is hearing is an actual prayer. The theta waves portion is intended to induce deep meditation, which can be unsettling depending on the current frequency of the participants brain waves
Rationale and research
What is it about
"Praying for others is important because it fulfills a New Testament command. We are to pray for all people (1 Timothy 2:1). We are to pray for government leaders (1 Timothy 2:2). We are to pray for the unsaved (1 Timothy 2:3). We are to pray for fellow Christians (Ephesians 6:18). We are to pray for ministers of the gospel (Ephesians 6:19–20). We are to pray for the persecuted church (Hebrews 13:3). Praying for others gets our focus off of ourselves and onto the needs around us. As we “carry each other’s burdens,” we “will fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). Begin praying for others today and help to build up the body of Christ." (gotQuestions 2017)
This work focuses on the recieving of prayer, which is often an intense experience as your eyes are normally closed, and your heart and mind is opened. You are vulnerable. The engagement with spacial audio makes reference to the source and physicallity of the experience. The feeling of understanding being almost within grasp yet alluding at the same time.
What is my personal revelation/experience
As a deacon within a pentacostal church I am often a participant within interpersonal prayer. Either engaging in recieving, giving or assisting in the process. It is an integral part of the faith. Often an intense experience. With the giver acting as a conduit for the holy spirit.
Quotes from the bible which relate to the work
1 Timothy 2:1
Pray for All People
2 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
Ephesians 6:18 (NLT)
Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere
Philippians 4:6 (ESV)
6 do not be anxious about anything, sbut in everything by prayer and supplication twith thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
John 14:13–14
13 zWhatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that athe Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me5 anything in my name, I will do it.
Asset production
List of assets:
Assets Images and objects
There are no visual assets for this project
Assets sounds
This work engages with two key audio assets:
Tongues/prayer:voice.mp3 and voice2.mp3 which are tongues base sound files were originally created via recording of artists voice speaking tongues in .wav format. These were then edited in software application Audacity and exported as mp3 files for cross browser support.
Theory of the code
The code for this project was written for web based platforms. Code languages used for this application were HTML, javascript, css and jquery. NOTE: As of 2017 security limitations to accessing gyroscopic data were established. Purchase of an SSL certificate for the host server were required. Audio playback has now been restricted to requiring user input before audio streaming takes place, this was bypassed through initiating the audio playback on clicking the 'fullscreen' button on the application.
To realise this artwork required gaining access to the devices gyroscope and using the z axis variable to manipulate the audio stream to create spacial audio. The base code for this project was based of a open source code that I produced in april 2016 (http://artworkprocesscode.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/move-image-using-mobile-gyroscope.html ) and a fullscreener code (http://artworkprocesscode.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/how-to-fullscreen-webpage-with-html.html)
Build versions: excluding base code development.
NOTE: Code is reference in individual files and annotated throughout the code files. Please download and refer to individual files for more detail. This code is designed to work ONLY on mobile devices and tablets with a gyroscope. This project required direct editing on the server as it is a mobile web application, this process of debugging is difficult as developer tools can not be used for errors.
1. Build based on original gyroscope source code. stereo audio Voices.mp3 and Voices2.mp3 added
2. gyroscopic data and visual output altered to allow for feedback of audio levels.
3.Spacial audio created by using gyroscopic data to attenuate the audio levels. If audio is playing behind the user it is muffled slightly.
4. Theta wave osilations added and set to auto buffer and play on click.
5. fullscreener code added (fullscreener.js and index.html) now clears all preload html content and fullscreens to black screen.
References
Mental health daily. 2014 "5 Types of brain wave frequencies" Mental health daily. Accessed 2 May 2017. URL:http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2014/04/15/5-types-of-brain-waves-frequencies-gamma-beta-alpha-theta-delta/
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