A new exhibition at King’s College London is showing immersive Virtual Reality (VR) work by students, to explore how immersive technologies change how we think about our bodies and their relationship to the world around us.
the show runs from 13 April 2026 to 25 April 2026.
Visitors are invited to explore two ‘playable’ environments and a host of walk-through videos created in Unity, a 3D game engine often used to prototype world-building scenarios and communicate speculative ideas.
The concept of ‘estrangement’, an aesthetic principle borrowed from theatre and literature and applied as a design technique in VR, inspired some of the works. Estrangement disrupts immersion, prompting users to question what they see and how they see it.
This exhibition has been created with students in Curating and Preserving Digital Culture, Digital Humanities department, King’s College London. Their display traces the shifting nature of identity and the currents which shape it throughout our lives.