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Love Simulation EVE

Download your life. Update your love.

LOVE SIMULATION EVE is a cinematic virtual reality experience created by EVE Labs. Based on the science of love and near-death experiences, this life-upgrading event invites you on a quest for your personal Love Algorithm.

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It is 2068. EVE Labs has mind-uploaded you into a simulated reality generated from your memories - the Everland. Love Simulation EVE is an upgrading event for your Everland life.

Entering VR, you will search for your Love Algorithms in playful encounters with other player avatars. You can also capture them by diving into volumetric and cinematic love memories of mind-uploaded EVE Labs developers. These intimate scenes depict connections with partners, family, nature, and God.

After an audio play, a 47-minute VR simulation, and a one-on-one Final Encounter, you will have the power to update our drowning future with micro-loving encounters.

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The pioneering project premiered at Espoo Theatre - The International Theatre of Finland in 2023. It was awarded "The Best New Media" at the New Media Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA) and "The Best VR Film" at TINFF (Toronto, Canada).

Audience feedback:
"...impressive and touching experience."
"Holistic, captivating and well-produced --- mind-blowing!"
"The ultimate empathy machine."

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Installation:
Love Simulation EVE is a location-based virtual reality experience combining audio play, volumetric cinema, and immersive theatre. EVE is set for a black box type of space with 14 player areas (about 90 m2). It can be scaled down to 6 player areas (40-50 m2). The VR and PC tech materials can be provided by Team EVE.

Duration: Altogether 90 mins.

Sections: Audio Play (13 mins), Intro Video/Onboarding (20 mins), VR Section (47 mins), Final Encounter (10 mins)

Staff:
* 2 staff members for a 6-player installation.
* 3 staff members (1 receptionist + 1 assistant + 1 actor) for a 14-player installation.

Capacity: The audience is taken in with 10-minute intervals.
About 84 visitors/day (with 14 player areas).

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LOVE SIMULATION EVE: WATER SPIRITS
Note: A two-player VR encounter "Water Spirits" is a stand-alone 6-minute Love Simulation EVE experience that grants the two players telekinetic powers to control the ocean around them and create micro-loving moments of synchrony. This shorter experience can be offered if the full-evening production is too long. More information: Love Simulation Eve: Water Spirits

  • Eero Tiainen
    Director
  • Eero Tiainen
    Writer
  • Inna Huttunen
    Producer
  • Johanna Ruonala
    Key Cast
  • Anja Bargum
    Key Cast
  • Henry Pöyhiä
    Key Cast
  • Jussi Lankoski
    Key Cast
  • Sami Juhani Rekola
    Key Cast
  • Yuko Takeda
    Key Cast
  • Janne Mattila
    Key Cast
  • Laura Ala-Ruona
    Key Cast
  • Kate O'Malley
    Key Cast
  • Anna Andersson
    Key Cast
  • Iikkamatti Hauru
    Lead Artists
  • Maciej Tomaszewski
    Lead Artists
  • Liya Pirkuliyeva
    Lead Artists
  • Ali Kubur
    VR developers
  • Kalle Blomberg
    VR developers
  • Mikko Honkanen
    VR developers
  • Michael Jelbart
    VR developers
  • Rongzhi Liu
    VR developers
  • Juuso-Matias Maijanen
    Intimacy Director
  • Matias Harju
    Sound Designers
  • Olli Ketonen
    Sound Designers
  • Iikkamatti Hauru
    Sound Designers
  • Matias Harju
    Music
  • Olli Ketonen
    Music
  • Iikkamatti Hauru
    Music
  • Aino Liinoja
    Music
  • Alina Pajula
    Light and Spatial Designer
  • Triin Kolmkant
    Costume Design
  • Pärttyli Rinne
    Dramaturg
  • Michael Hudson
    Unreal Engine and Character Consulting
  • Erik Söderblom
    Dramaturgical Mentors
  • Essi Aittamaa
    Dramaturgical Mentors
  • Inna Huttunen
    VR experience designers
  • Jaakko Sorja
    VR experience designers
  • Project Type:
    Virtual Reality, Performance, Installation, Game, Interactive Film
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi, Drama
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    300,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Finland
  • Language:
    English
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • The International Theatre of Finland / Espoo Theare "&"
    Espoo
    Finland
    March 1, 2023
    Love Simulation EVE Premiere
    Official Selection
  • "The Best VR Film" - Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (demo screening)
    Toronto
    Canada
    September 21, 2023
    Demo screening only
    Winner: "The Best VR Film"
  • "Best New Media" - New Media Film Festival (video screening only)
    Los Angeles
    United States
    June 6, 2024
    Best New Media
Distribution Information
  • Avatar's Journey Travel Agency
    Distributor
    Country: Finland
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Eero Tiainen

Eero Tiainen (born in 1985) is a Finnish XR experience creator whose practice combines metaphysical world-building and transpersonal psychology with intimate play. His latest productions are the cinematic VR play Love Simulation EVE and the dyadic VR installation Water Spirits. Earlier works include fictional and documentary VR films, immersive performances and new media art installations. Tiainen supports the XR arts at the Finnish Virtual Reality Association FIVR and as a director of the XR Art Festival Embrace.

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Director Statement

Love Simulation EVE is a culmination of a many-year journey into creating immersive experiences and interactive narratives. It combines all the aspects I have learned about immersive theatre, filmmaking and game design. The research in depth psychology and my own transformative experiences have also influenced the experience design.

The player’s journey is structured as a rite of passage during which the player’s old self is transformed into an anonymous water spirit avatar form. Much of world design inspiration has been taken from the phenomena of near-death experiences and “life review” experiences. The visitor descends to the bardo of the simulation, dissolves into the heavenly “Quantum Sea” and is finally reborn again to their afterlife in the Everland - the reality simulation we all share.

What hopefully comes out from these series of intimate one-on-one encounters is a person who has been updated with an ability to create "love algorithms". Love is our "superhuman" strength, the power to create micro-loving encounters (a term inspired by Barbara L. Fredrickson). Love Simulation EVE suggests that our love algorithms can upgrade reality beyond this drowning world simulation.