A WORLD of differences; ....But what appears to be a visiting extra-terrestrial turns out to be a maverick designer, Jan Torpus, who is pushing the boundary between the real world and fantasy in a project he calls "augmented reality."
Through the plastic screen of his helmet, Torpus tells a pair of bemused park cleaners he sees ordinary trees, bushes and benches -- but the landscape is also populated with virtual animals which are hunting beetles.
"Perhaps we can get them to hunt our boss," one of the cleaners mutters to his colleague.
Yet a journalist trying on the helmet saw something startlingly different: a big red fish chased beetles through what looked like cane fields, which then became a desert that was then transformed into a tranquil meadow.
A massive green worm cuddled up to the fish, to the accompaniment of a dramatic movie-like musical score.
Torpus explains that in his lifeClipper 3 project, the person wearing the helmet creates their own perceptions. ... cont/-
A WORLD of differences; ....But what appears to be a visiting extra-terrestrial turns out to be a maverick designer, Jan Torpus, who is pushing the boundary between the real world and fantasy in a project he calls "augmented reality."
ReplyDeleteThrough the plastic screen of his helmet, Torpus tells a pair of bemused park cleaners he sees ordinary trees, bushes and benches -- but the landscape is also populated with virtual animals which are hunting beetles.
"Perhaps we can get them to hunt our boss," one of the cleaners mutters to his colleague.
Yet a journalist trying on the helmet saw something startlingly different: a big red fish chased beetles through what looked like cane fields, which then became a desert that was then transformed into a tranquil meadow.
A massive green worm cuddled up to the fish, to the accompaniment of a dramatic movie-like musical score.
Torpus explains that in his lifeClipper 3 project, the person wearing the helmet creates their own perceptions.
... cont/-