What if NFT owners could fully immerse themselves in the metaverse they create?
Orbstellar Metaspace:
Immersive Art Exhibition & Retail Space
Interactive Art, NFT Installations, AR Filters
2022 / Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong
The Orbstellar: Metaspace exhibition explores the possibilities that emerge when NFT ownership grants participants the ability to fully immerse themselves in and shape the works they help create. The participatory approach and immersive technologies reimagine what it means to conceive, own, and experience non-fungible tokens as art.
To create an inviting yet private atmosphere, the shop front is designed to be partially blocked, so as to arouse curiosity about the futuristic-themed space within.
To induce customers to first obtain coins for NFT access, an entrance station anchors the open interior showcasing souvenirs and phototaking space windows, thereby creating an engaging backdrop for the experience.
At the entrance to the exhibition, visitors are greeted by a futuristic galactic hub inviting them to embark on an interstellar journey. To participate in the co-creative process, visitors purchase an empty NFT coin like a space ticket that grants them access to shape and share in the galactic art experience.
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NFT Art Factory
Space Game Station
With access granted via NFT coins, visitors discover an area featuring minerals and rocks for appreciating, playing and learning from. Visitors accumulate specific specimens within their personal web app collection by scanning QR codes or unlocking mission rewards.
The intuitive web app interface allows visitors to populate their personal collection, and combine elements to conceive unique NFT planets.
In the center game station, visitors play two space mission games where they earn special and rare minerals as rewards.
Arranged throughout the space, physical mineral specimens also provide tactile examples to create a multi-sensory experience.
Interactive games grant visitors a taste of the galaxy's mysteries while providing an engaging means to build more personal NFTs through collection of virtual objects.
A moonwalking simulation on a satellite provides rewards of lunar rocks for visitors to incorporate into their personalized NFT planets upon completion.
A flying experience lets visitors navigate an asteroid field to capture meteoroids, accruing rare elements to incorporate into their envisioned NFT planets.
The immersive mirror room presents the NFT galaxy nebula as a work in progress, adapting its visual progression stage by stage through alignment with user planets, empowering visitors to contribute to the collectively authored work of art.
Galaxy Co-creation Mirror Room
The mirror gallery visualization serves as a canvas upon which the collective NFT galaxy comes to life through the contributions of viewers.
As visitors conceive and select their planets with specific emphases - some accentuating interstellar planetary communication.
others desiring nebula formations resembling those within the human brain - the gallery shifts through staged visual evolutions.
By enhancing planets with digital minerals, visitors transform the galactic ecosystem and the room reflects the sum of all viewer input.
At the end of the journey, visitors mint their most meaningful moments and virtual artifacts as singular NFT artworks on the Orbstellar blockchain, forever embedding their contributions within this collaborative artistic vision.
Client
Swire Properties
Roles In This Project
Design Director — Exhibition Set Design, Interaction Design, Game Design
Lead Developer — Web / Game/ Unreal Development
Teammates
Creative Director Chris Cheung
Technical Director Jeff Wong
Project Manager Daisy Lee
Exhibition Production Jeff Wong, Kit Leung, Wai Choy, Ryan Leung
Web Developer Biboo Chung, Jeff Wong
Multimedia Designer Eric Sze
Project Assistant Kayley
Collaborator - Model Nicole Cheung