Echoes of Me is an expe­ri­ence that invites par­tic­i­pants into an inti­mate dia­logue with them­selves through an immer­sive XR jour­ney inspired by research on self-compassion and perspective-taking in VR. The expe­ri­ence is designed to evoke con­cep­tual change and feel­ings of self-compassion through vir­tual embod­i­ment and embod­ied inter­ac­tion. Echoes of Me is a guided encounter, not about becom­ing some­one else, but about seeing your­self with new eyes. It offers a moment of pause, reflec­tion, and recon­nec­tion, using the unique capa­bil­i­ties of XR to move beyond the head­set and reshape how we per­ceive our­selves in every­day life.

Credits:

Director: Noah Miller
Executive Producer: Bernhard Riecke
VR Development: Noah Miller, Pouya Salehi, Jacob Sauer
Visual Art: Pouya Salehi, Noah Miller
Narrative Design: Noah Miller, Jacob Sauer
Environment Design: Pouya Salehi
Interaction Design: Noah Miller, Pouya Salehi, Alex Kitson
Sound Design: Jacob Sauer, Pouya Salehi, Noah Miller
Narration: Jacob Sauer

With research con­tri­bu­tions by:
Denise Quesnel, Alex Kitson, Bernhard Riecke, Caila Tymchuk, Jasmine Rakhra, Katelyn Watson, Peyton Crawford, Tatiana Losev.

This work is funded in part by the New Frontiers in Research fund of the Government of Canada / Du projet est financé en partie par le fonds Nouvelles fron­tières en recherche du gou­verne­ment du Canada and is sit­u­ated within the project ‘Pathways to flour­ish­ing’ devel­oped by iSpace­Lab at Simon Fraser University, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with BC Children’s Hospital Centre for Mindfulness. Scholarly and applied con­tri­bu­tions are pro­vided through Noah Miller’s doc­toral research, Denise Quesnel’s doc­toral research and imple­men­ta­tion sci­ence activ­i­ties, and Alex Kitson’s post-doctoral method­ol­ogy; the project’s rela­tion­ship devel­op­ment and out­reach are fur­ther sup­ported by Quesnel’s PhD Vanier funded research #148297 and Mind & Life award.