Nudging Reality"You're in this other world, this other realness. It throws you into another dimension."
An optical device attached to a smartphone which places a lifesized moving image in your dominant eye while you view the real world with the other. Used with headphones that merge soundscapes with live amplified sound, your brain combines the two views so that the action in the video appears to take place in the real world. The device was conceived during a Blast Theory Residency looking at sound, visuals and haptics as ways of conveying narrative and navigational cues. We prototyped it during the Reframed Project Development Programme at Lighthouse, and are currently in development at Fusebox. Development blog is here.
“...a rare genuine art-science interaction, … a touchstone example of how technology can be used to highlight the processes through which we … are moved through the world.” Paul Graham, Professor of Neuroethology Tester comments: "I found ...the cardboard AR hack revolutionary! I loved how she brought together basic old techniques with simple technology to created something super accessible, but super-extraordinary." "It immerses you and it makes you almost invested in the story because not only are you viewing it in a real location, you are also controlling it (the action)..." |