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Body of Mine
Body of Mine

Body of Mine

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Context Engineering Tips:

  • Embodied Awareness:Before entering, take a moment to connect with your physical body. Notice how it feels to inhabit your current form. This grounding will create a powerful contrast when you experience inhabiting a different body, making the transformation more profound.
  • Open Heart, Open Mind:Approach this experience with compassion and curiosity. You'll be stepping into stories of gender dysphoria and euphoria - allow yourself to listen deeply without judgment. This is an opportunity to understand experiences that may be vastly different from your own.
  • Full Presence:The experience uses body, face, and eye tracking to create an intimate connection with the stories being shared. Allow yourself to be fully present and vulnerable. Look in the mirror when prompted, make eye contact, and engage with the full-body tracking features.
  • Emotional Preparation:This is a powerful and potentially emotional experience. It's okay to feel uncomfortable, moved, or challenged. Have a quiet space available afterward where you can process what you've experienced. Consider having tissues nearby.
  • Respectful Engagement:Remember that you're being invited into deeply personal stories from real transgender individuals. Treat this experience with the respect and dignity it deserves. You're not just observing - you're being trusted with intimate human experiences.
  • Body-Mind Connection:Pay attention to how inhabiting a different body affects your thoughts, feelings, and sense of self. Notice subtle shifts in perspective. The experience is designed to create empathy through embodiment - let that transformation happen naturally.
  • Post-Experience Reflection:After completing the experience, take time to integrate what you've learned. Consider: What surprised you? How did it feel to inhabit another body? What new understanding do you have about gender identity and the transgender experience? Journaling or discussing with others can deepen the impact.
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Developer

Kost, Inc.

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Medium
VR
Description

Body of Mine is an award-winning, full-body VR experience that invites you to inhabit the body of another gender and discover stories from transgender individuals.Combining body, face, and eye tracking with personal interviews of transgender individuals, the experimental storytelling experience allows you to hear, discover, and experience stories of gender dysphoria and euphoria.Winner of the Producers Guild Innovation Award, and with accolades from BAFTA, SXSW, and Games for Change, Body of Mine “breaks through a psychological barrier that few pieces of media ever have” (WIRED), taking you on a profound journey of what it means to be a human being.

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duration
User Defined
Genre
EducationalSensory ExplorationWellness / HealthVisual Experience
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tags
Cognitive Shift
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Release Platform
Steam VRMeta Quest
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hardware supported
Quest 2Quest 3PC VR HMDs (Rift - HTC Vive - Valve Index - Etc)
Released Date
Jun 13, 2024
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intensity
ModerateStrong
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interactivity level
Hand TrackingInteractive - Moderate
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languages
English
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age rating
18+
status
Paid
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