Love Simulation EVE

Download your life. Update your love.

LOVE SIMULATION EVE is a transformative virtual reality experience created by EVE Labs. Based on the science of love and near-death experiences, our location-based experience welcomes you to upgrade your simulation life with love. In the search for the life of your dreams, you will dive into volumetrically captured love memories of the mind-uploaded EVE Labs' developers. You can also experience playful encounters with another player-avatar. Our audio play, 47-minute VR simulation and arcane Final Encounter will offer you out-of-body experiences after which you are ready to update our drowning world with new Love Algorithms.

LOVE SIMULATION EVE is a location-based virtual reality experience combining audio play, cinematic storytelling and immersive theater. 

EVE usually shown in the black box type of space for 14 player areas (about 90 m2). It can be scaled down to 6 player areas (about 40 m2). The VR and PC tech, audio tech and spatial installation materials can be provided by Team EVE.
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LOVE SIMULATION EVE: WATER SPIRITS
A stand-alone two-player VR encounter, "Water Spirits", offers a 5-minute Love Simulation experience in case the longer production is too heavy. It grants the two player-avatars with telekinetic powers to control the ocean around them and create micro-loving moments of synchrony. "Water Spirits" is a cinematic live VR encounter set in a lucid dream of an AI narrator.
More info: https://filmfreeway.com/waterspirits_lovesimulationeve

  • Eero Henrik Tiainen
    Director
  • Eero Henrik 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
  • International Theatre of Finland
    Espoo
    Finland
    March 1, 2023
    Love Simulation EVE Premiere
    Official Selection
  • EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Water Spirits section, non-finished)
    Espoo
    Finland
    August 26, 2022
    Water Spirits section, non-finished
    Official Selection
  • Aalto Aesthetics (Water Spirits section, non-finished)
    Seinäjoki
    Finland
    October 28, 2022
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Avatar's Journey Travel Agency
    Distributor
    Country: Finland
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Eero Henrik 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.