Shared VR
A Generative Ritual
SharedVR is a multi-user immersive installation where participants co-create a living audiovisual landscape through hand gestures, spatial sound and real-time visual feedback.
Conceived from the artistic research of composer Michelangelo Lupone and developed within the ItARTS project at Politecnico di Torino, the experience translates the original SHARED work into an abstract virtual environment: not a digital replica, but a responsive ritual space where presence, sound and movement continuously reshape one another. At its centre, a luminous oracle collects and transforms each participant’s gestures into particles, trails and sonic traces, turning individual actions into a shared collective memory.
Presented at the Harvard GSD XR Conference 2026, SharedVR received the Best AI + XR Narrative award for its experimental approach to immersive storytelling and co-creation.
Made of Light, Sound and Gesture
Co-Creating an Immersive Audiovisual Landscape
VRROOM Studio curated the full artistic pipeline of the VR experience, shaping its real-time visual language from VFXs to in-engine integration.
Our work focused on shaders, lighting, VFX Graph systems, particle behaviours, interaction feedback, transitions, atmosphere and Unity scene implementation, with the goal of making the installation feel alive, readable and emotionally resonant. Every glow, trail and particle system was designed to support the core idea of the work: a suspended, generative environment where gesture becomes composition and the audience becomes part of the artwork itself.
The project was developed by a research team coordinated by the Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio (DIST), with the contribution of the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica (DAUIN) for its technical and computational expertise.
Artist / Composer — Michelangelo Lupone
Scientific Direction — Tatiana Mazali, Andrea Bottino
Technical Direction — Francesco Strada
Creative Direction — Carlo Gioia
Lead XR Development — Alice Cavasino, Fabrizio Sulpizio