TERMINUS VR Experience
The TERMINUS VR Experience is now available for purchase on the Oculus Store for the Rift, and via Steam for Vive, Valve Index, and Rift. Please visit these stores to purchase.
TERMINUS is a Virtual Reality experience in five parts—an arcane world illustrated over several years through drawings by Jess Johnson, brought to life by Simon Ward and developer Kenny Smith, and enriched with soundtracks by composer Andrew Clarke.
Originally commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia and The Balnaves Foundation, TERMINUS launched in 2018 as the centrepiece of a major exhibition by Johnson and Ward at the NGA. In the original presentation, each of the five parts were housed in their own bespoke architectural structure, situated on a full-scale tessellated floor map. The TERMINUS exhibition is now touring several cities in Australasia, and the VR experience is now available for download via the Oculus Store and Steam.
Prepare yourself for a slippage of time and space as your journey propels you across five distinct realms: cross the frontier through Fleshold Crossing; take respite in Known Unknown; lose yourself within Scumm Engine; face impending danger in the tower of Gog & Magog; and experience the brink of sensory overload in the psychedelic Tumblewych. The mysteries of what you ultimately seek will be revealed: an understanding that reality is not fixed but rather both malleable and multiple.