Saël Simard
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Work
Two players move through mirrored Versus VR rooms while spectators watch from the shared perimeter

Case study

Authored work

2022 · Mother of the Nation Festival, Abu Dhabi

Versus

Creator / Producer

A multiplayer immersive VR experience — the year before Omega Protocol, in the same festival lineage.

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01Premise

The question

What does a year of iteration do to a location-based VR practice?

02Encounter

Experience

Two players move through mirrored Versus VR rooms while spectators watch from the shared perimeter
Saël Simard — AI-assisted visualization

Promoted in the 2022 Thrill Zone at Mother of the Nation. Gameplay and technical design should be recovered from archives rather than reconstructed from marketing fragments.

03Architecture

System

ContextLINKVIVA
My roleCreator / Producer
The workVersus
Known media & modules—
Axonometric system plan of the two-room Versus multiplayer VR installation
Saël Simard

Paired with Omega Protocol as a two-year evolution of location-based VR. Precise hardware and player count pending archive recovery.

04Consequence

What changed

The second year made the first year legible as a practice, not a one-off activation.

05Project facts

Context

Authorship
Authored work
Role
Creator / Producer
Client
LINKVIVA
Year
2022
Location
Mother of the Nation Festival, Abu Dhabi

06Attribution

Credits

  • Saël SimardCreator / Producer
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