VRwandlung

In the "MetamorphosisVR" you wake up as a giant insect in a faithfully reconstructed room thanks to VR technology. Do read about what exactly awaits you here.

Mika Johnson’s VRwandlung has been touring the world since the spring of 2018. Now the virtual reality version of the world classic by Franz Kafka is in the South Asia region. Its success is as huge as the insect into which it transforms participants.

Translations, adaptations, paintings and even sculptures reveal an increasing influence of Franz Kafka's works on India's artistic and literary landscape.

Controversial articles in the arts sections, pragmatic approach in the schools: obligatory reading and the question of its justification.

For a long time, we were familiar with Franz Kafka’s German only because of Max Brod’s posthumous publication of Kafka’s works. However, in Kafka’s original texts, the spoken language clearly left its mark.
 

At the Game Science Centre in Berlin, visitors can take a look at the future and try out what will be shaping our everyday lives in the years to come – for example, virtual reality. The new technologies are also interesting for libraries.

Visual and motoric immersion plunges learners into a computer-generated environment – a virtual reality – in which they can communicate in a foreign language. Their experiences in the digital world remain highly subjective, however, which is why the virtual reality has to reflect the users’ expectations and have a proper didactical basis.

Ten German virtual reality and 360-degree video projects you should know about.