To sum things up, the experience puts YOU (the user) in the pilot’s seat of ‘Sankhara’ a space probe just as it is prepping for launch. Through simple gaze-based interactions, the user will both launch and pilot the probe on a vast and beautiful journey across the cosmos. There will also be a mysterious surprise waiting for the user as he or she approaches her destination, involving further interaction and choice. All of this is wrapped in a beautiful art style, and is set to a narrated excerpt from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. 

The experience is currently in Alpha development in Unity3D, and our goal is to launch the finished project in early 2016. It will be available as a downloadable app that works with Google Cardboard, and also will be playable directly in-browser as 360 video. An exciting note about the teaser website is that it runs using WebGL (browser-based 3D tech) that even works on mobile!

Stay tuned to experience Sankhara in early 2016!

Check out the site at sankhara.tendril.ca

Client: Tendril

Audio Production Company: White Noise Lab
Music + Sound Design: Roger Lima
Producer (Audio): Jessica Lima