Lou
Dive into the sensory world of autism with LOU. This immersive journey lets users experience the world as Lou, an autistic child, navigating through his unique sensory perceptions. Participants will see and hear from Lou’s perspective, dealing with various stimuli, engaging in social interactions, and handling everyday tasks. This carefully crafted experience is based on stories from autistic individuals and has been developed with the direct involvement of autistic actors, creators, and advisors. LOU offers a groundbreaking opportunity to understand the heightened sensory experiences commonly faced by individuals on the autism spectrum.
Martine Asselin and Annick Daigneault each have an autistic child. They decided to work together on an immersive project about autism. Martine is a documentary filmmaker whose work has been shown in festivals and on television worldwide, while Annick has been working as an event creator/coordinator and actor and has created a Foundation for the inclusion of autistic people. Driven by the same conviction that inclusion is the only way forward, they decided to use virtual reality to see how immersive media and interactivity could be used to push the documentary experience and autism awareness to a new level.
