What it is like to be a Bat
“What it is like to be a bat” is a VR piece in which the viewer experiences being a bat. The viewer begins in darkness. To simulate echolocation, the viewer makes clicks (into the VR headset’s microphone) which are then rendered as pulses of light. The viewer will then “see” that they are in a cave, fly out of it, and fly through the countryside at night catching insects. It is an attempt to both try to understand existing but inaccessible subjective experiences (i.e., those of bats) and to explore what completely new subjective experiences are made possible by VR.