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HOLOMagazine
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
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Greg J. Smith @gr3gjsmith
creativeapplications.netholo-magazine.com
CreativeApplications.Net (launched 2008)
Design I/O, Connected Worlds (2015)
Philipp Schmitt, Camera Restricta (2015)
HOLO (launched 2014, second issue due this fall)
HOLO (launched 2014, second issue due this fall)
Hugo Gernsback, TV Glasses (1963)
William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
“Virtual reality dangles in front of our eyes a vision of the media’s future, changes in the ways we communicate, and the way we think about communication. The medium that tantalizes us so has gone by a number of names: computer simulation, artificial reality, virtual environments, augmented reality, cyberspace, and so on.... It has defined the technology’s future by giving it a goal—the creation of virtual reality. Virtual reality is not a technology; it is a destination.”
—Frank Biocca & Mark R. Levy, Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality (1995)
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
Our agenda, broadly speaking:
• What are the cultural forces and technological trajectories driving the proliferation of VR?
• What challenges does the medium face?• What are some promising opportunities in
immersive experience design?
Our agenda, broadly speaking:
• What are the cultural forces and technological trajectories driving the proliferation of VR?
• What challenges does the medium face?• What are some promising opportunities in
immersive experience design?
The representation arms race
Ivan Sutherland, The Sword of Damocles (1968)
id Software, Quake III Arena (1999)
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait (1434)
Our agenda, broadly speaking:
• What are the cultural forces and technological trajectories driving the proliferation of VR?
• What challenges does the medium face?• What types of unanticipated immersive experiences
may soon emerge?
Challenge #1: Remediation/growing pains
Étienne-Jules Marey, Chronophotography (~1880)
Oculus Story Studio, Henry (In Development)
The Body
Challenge #2: Nonlinear and/or
‘sandbox’narrative
Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
Second Life (2003-)
“Perhaps a cyberdramatist of the future will find a way to show us not just the large battlefield and the single soldier (as Tolstoy does in War and Peace) but also the processes by which large historic events emerge as the sum of many much smaller causes (as Tolstoy strove to convey in his interpolated essays but could not dramatically capture). All of these story patterns would be ways of enacting the contemporary human struggle to both affirm and transcend our own limited point of view.”
—Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck (1997)
The Body
Challenge #3: Engaging the body
Chris Milk, multi-channel binaural mic (2014)
SOMNIACS, Birdly (2014)
HTC Vive ‘inside-out’ tracking
Our agenda, broadly speaking:
• What are the cultural forces and technological trajectories driving the proliferation of VR?
• What challenges does the medium face?• What are some promising opportunities in
immersive experience design?
Opportunity #1Memory Palace
Sarah Rothberg, Memory/Place: My house (2015)
Sarah Rothberg, Memory/Place: My house (2015)
Sarah Rothberg, Memory/Place: My house (2015)
Opportunity #2DIY Workflow
James George & Jonathan Minard, CLOUDS (2015)
James George DepthKit
Specular Studio, Blackout (In Development)
Specular Studio, Blackout (In Development)
Opportunity #3Mixed Reality Experiences
Simon de Diesbach, OccultUs (2014)
Simon de Diesbach, OccultUs (2014)
Opportunity #4Radical Empathy
BeAnotherLab, Machine to Be Another (2014)
BeAnotherLab, Machine to Be Another (2014)
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
“However, I will reveal a secret to you. I liked to build universes which do fall apart.... I have a secret love of chaos. There should be more of it ... The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish.” —Philip K. Dick (1978)
HOLOMagazine
Thank you for your attention!
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Greg J. Smith @gr3gjsmith
creativeapplications.netholo-magazine.com
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