Chloé Lee’s immersive art piece Temporal World: A Haptisonic Virtual Reality Memory World uses a custom-made haptic vest that is intimately integrated into the ambient sound design of this point-cloud, spatial exploration around memory. Lee wanted to incorporate open-world wandering, but also explore the fragmented nature of her own immigrant identity and disjunctive blending of memories across multiple cultures. She uses the sparse point clouds to mirror aspects of this immigrant experience, while also innovating on hand-gesture driven locomotion schemes and an overall “haptisonic” fusion that’s incredibly immersive and compelling in a way that amplifies the experience beyond just the visuals or sound design alone. There are more coherent audio spheres connected to the memories that you can portal into via discovering objects, and my biggest complaint was feeling a bit too lost in the second portion where I felt like I was not succeeding in discovering everything. But Lee seems content in preferring this mode of open world exploration without being connected to the desire to be a completionist. Perhaps this feeling of being lost or aimless wandering also serves to replicate dimensions of a sort of exile that immigrants may face, and so thematically it may be resonant with her deeper design intentions and intuitions for how this all came together.