Life of a Chickpea —360° VR for Children
My role
- Idea & proposal
- Direction
- AI production
- 360° VR film
Year
2026
Discipline
Client
Dialogue Society
Audience
Children · VR headsets
Tools
A 360° VR film made with AI for Dialogue Society: instead of hearing about a chickpea’s journey, children put on a headset and become the chickpea.
The brief
Dialogue Society’s chickpea project had already been on the news at the BBC. The next step was to grow it and make it more complete. The audience was children, so we wanted to tell the story through VR headsets too.
The problem
The presentations relied on very traditional methods, and those don’t hold children’s attention for long. I proposed a different method: let them live the story.
Becoming a chickpea
With the headset on, every child becomes a chickpea: riding through the kitchen like a roller coaster and tumbling into the mixing bowl as if into a mixer.
What happened
During the presentations the children kept waiting, impatiently, for the VR part. Even those who hadn’t followed the talk were completely absorbed once the headset went on — those fun moments gathered all of their attention.
As a director, that is where I knew I had reached my goal: from that moment on, we could guide their attention.
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