This project was displayed during the Urban Screens Manchester 2007 festival. It is aptly called 'Liberate Your Avatar' and has a dedicated web page here. Paul Sermon has created a space where people can interact with avatars through a single Mixed Reality Boundary. As you can see, this boundary exists in both physical space and virtual space simulatneously. He creates a composite image that allows people and avatars to 'inhabit' the same space while simultaneously (bodily) occupying their own space.
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As described on the website:
"The merged realities of ‘All Saints Gardens’ on Oxford Road, and its online three-dimensional counterpart in ‘Second Life’ will, for the first time, allow ‘first life’ visitors and ‘second life’ avatars to coexist and share the same park bench in a live interactive public video installation. Entering into this feedback loop through a portal between these two parallel worlds this event exposes the identity paradox in Second Life."
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I analyze this relationship in my thesis on Transarchitecture but Paul has done a wonderful job of excecuting this interaction. Bravo!
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Good post.
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