Bardo is a VR experience based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Tibetan Bar-do, or the in-between the two is an intermediate space, inter-space, and gap. We examine the inner space of the individual who dies (performs an act of self-liberation) and has not yet entered a new form of existence. According to the six stages of the Bar-do cycle contained in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, We divided the virtual space into stages that cannot be explored autonomously – their character and purpose are based on a journey towards a specific direction. According to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, they are Kyenay bardo, Milam bardo, Samten bardo, Chikhai bardo, Chönyi bardo, and Sidpa bardo. I identify the participant in their transmigration process with the supra-individual “mental body” (jid-kji lus), “mind” (seems), and “subtle consciousness” (rnam-shes p’ra-mo). It is related to the book The Psychedelic Experience (by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert, first edition: University Books, New York 1964), in which the bardo experience was analyzed in the context of the total loss of subjective identity. Immersive bardo experience is possible thanks to six degrees of freedom – 6DoF. The participant has full autonomous ability to move, explore and change positions in terms of moving forward / backward, up / down, left / right in three perpendicular axes, combined with orientation changes by rotating around three perpendicular axes – bend (coronal axis), jump (transverse axis) and tilt (sagittal axis). After the experience finishes, the participant becomes a Delog –“daa-log is the deceased, who ‘returned from dead’ to tell what he had seen and lived on the other side. Delog is someone who has died and left the body, after some time to return and continue to live”.
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