DeathTolls Experience takes users on a virtual reality journey through data visualizations of casualties from terrorist attacks in Europe, refugee deaths in the Mediterranean Sea, and losses in the Syrian civil war. This indie casual experience walks participants past hundreds of thousands of dead bodies rendered in photorealistic CGI scenes. It confronts the numbness bred by constant media reports on such tragedies.
The project traces a path across European historical massacres, an ocean packed with body bags of drowned Syrian refugees, and battlefields strewn with Syrian civil war dead. Creators like Ali Eslami use these scenes to foster awareness of death toll statistics and empathy for the individuals they represent. Casual VR explorers seeking emotional engagement with real-world data find a direct match here.
DeathTolls Experience is a journey through data in virtual reality that aims to re-sensitize the user to the casualties of the terrorist attacks in Europe, refugee deaths in the Mediterranean Sea, and the human cost of the Syrian civil war. The project challenges the lack of concern that results from the frequency of such news on the mass media. By walking the user through hundreds of thousands of dead bodies in photorealistic CGI scenes, the creator Ali Eslami aims to inspire an active awareness towards big data that represents massive deaths, and compassion for the people behind those numbers.
On the basis of a virtual journey through the history of European bloodbaths, an ocean filled with body bags containing recently drowned Syrian refugees, and casualties of the Syrian civil war, DeathTolls Experience immerses us in the meaning of these figures, opening up an emotional perspective on this suffering and terror.
